Hillary Clinton Warns US AGAIN: "It's like the frog dropped into the water. It's boiling."
Hillary Clinton can draw a straight line from her duels with conservative media and Republican politicians in the 1990s to the January 6 insurrection—and she fears worse is coming. “There’s always been a kind of paranoid streak in American politics,” the former secretary of state told Atlantic staff writer Jennifer Senior. “But it never was given such voice, such a platform, or had so much money behind it until we saw the rise of the right-wing radio voices like Rush Limbaugh and we saw the rise of Fox News. And then, of course, the internet just put it on steroids.”
She blames the tech giants for facilitating the rise of conspiracism and Republicans for exploiting fear and suspicion in a quest to permanently seize political power, whether as an obstructionist party in Congress or by undermining and overturning elections. Referencing moves by state legislatures to change election laws and congressional Republicans who objected to the election results earlier this year, Clinton said not enough Americans are taking the danger of a constitutional crisis seriously: “It’s like the frog dropped into the water. It’s boiling. People are still arguing about stuff that is important, but not as fundamental as whether or not our democracy will be broken and then taken over and minority rule will be what we live under.
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It provides cover for greedy self centered politician's like Sen Yacht and Sen 'Spa Weekend'.
Dirty money is the reason for our troubles today...an authoritarian regime would cement this corruption into our political way of life.
I do have hope, but it is going to be a long hard bloody fight, just like the Union organizers had in the early 2oth century.
You're right of course about needing to be prepared for a long, hard fight if necessary.
But see Nancy's take about money below. Where classes exist so wealthy that democracy is seen as a problem and even insult, dirty money will also. And add to that the fuel provided by the fear and rage of the socially conservative minority who are trying to create a national conflagration, from which they'll rise.
If we don't stop the framework from being destroyed, arguing about the balls in play will be moot.
THAT is the real danger she is speaking to, and with our short term minds people have a real hard time looking at the long term Big Picture.
Humans are creatures of habit and don't react to change very well or very quickly unless they are goaded by the Paul Revere's of the World.
After all, the game has been played by the same rules for decades, if not centuries...why worry?
Kudo's to Hillary for being a Paul Revere...however we need many many more.
I know you are one, thanks! 
My hope is rapidly fading. 
She's extremely intelligent and always well prepared. She doesn't pull statements out of her backside, like Trump. She reads, studies and analyzes issues before making pronouncements. That's one thing she and Bill have in common, two brilliant people.
Democracies are a slippery slope, hard to obtain and easy to lose.
Shit about the Big Picture.. only their Own EGOS!
Rt TY
