Gestapo USA

Bruh, get out of my brain.

while pathologically labelling every sign of collapse as just "the pendulum swinging one way before it comes back".

I had a (actually relatively politically savvy, intelligent, thoughtful person who is aware of what's happening) coworker try to say something like this to me a couple weeks back.

Like buddy I've been alive long enough to know what this pendulum you speak of looks like.

This ain't it, boss. That's pure copium.

It also ignores the fact that the pendulum doesn't just automatically swing back to the left from momentum or whatever. It has to be clawed back, tooth and nail. Every single fucking time.

And it always ends up slightly further right when all is said and done and the next swing begins. Every time it goes less and less to the left until the entire fucking pendulum lives on the right.