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While the analogy fits pretty well with human nature, the premise is faulty: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog.
I'm not disputing your comment or what you're saying, I think you're right. Just thought you'd be interested in knowing the frog would jump out.
That's news to me regarding what the frog would do. So the revised meaning of boiling frog is to say that there is only so much pain a person or populace will tolerate before taking action. Not that by the time it's too hot it's too late.
Regardless of how we feel about frogs and stimuli my point that Americans don't have a breaking point vs ICE still stands.
“don’t have a breaking point” is very different from “haven’t hit their breaking point when I think they should have.”
But I think it is also important in this discussion to point out that many if not most Americans still live a privileged existence. And I am not talking shit about them; I am one of them! I know from experience that if I didn’t care about other people and didn’t like excellent Mexican restaurants, my life would not be at all changed (yeah I’m way up in Pennsylvania and they raided the place with the best food and nice people). Simply put, the people who need to feel the pain are not feeling the pain. The administration is still mostly hurting the “right” people.
I think the situation is horrifying and distressing. But if you’re a sociopath (i.e., a trumper who has not had the leopards target their face yet) who is a caucasian natural born citizen, and also an ignoramus who doesn’t watch news/history, you might just be one of those psychos looking forward to Trump’s third term.
Well I'm none of those things. But I do think you have a good point regarding perspective from privilege. I guess I actually do think Americans have a breaking point, one that is just too far off to be relevant because by then it'll be too late to avert severe consequences for everyone. But I could be very wrong, I'm biased, most Americans have it a lot worse than I do at any given time.