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those in middle america suckling the fox news ~~teet~~ teat are completely oblivious to the negative aspects of donald trump. this is a huge volume of the voting population isolated and brainwashed.
how do you combat that?
That's ultimately the question. We can get rid of Trump at some point (and by "we," I mean the Grim Reaper most likely, the way things are going), but how do you deprogram the decades of misinformation that installed him in the first and second place?
I'm not an academic -- though that's apparently of about as much use as being a journalist these days -- so I'm not really qualified to answer that. I suspect it would take MAGA hats having their lives become completely unaffordable to effect any demonstrable change. Ignoring the Constitution clearly isn't having enough of an impact.
Unfortunately, what it's likely going to take, just as it has with past civilizations, is complete collapse.
Our descendants will hopefully build something better in the rubble we leave behind.
Past civilizations show us rebuilding generally takes centuries (Germany did not suffer complete collapse in the '40s -- think more Rome, Egypt and China), and they didn't have power grids and datacenters to worry about. Whatever descendants remain will be trying to do this in the hottest climate humans have experienced, which complicates matters.
I'm not seeing anything reputable that suggests we aren't on track for at least 3.5C above preindustrial, given feedback loops we're already seeing. The horses are out, and we're arguing about the finer engineering points of barn doors.