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From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
I can't tell you many freaking "WE ARE ALL DOOMED EVERYTHING IS FUCKED NOTHING GOOD IS EVER GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN THE SKY IS FALLING WOE IS MEEEEE" posts I've read today (and I probably don't need to, because it sounds like you've read them, too 
). And I am just SO sick of it. 
I agree with you 1000%: enough gloom and doom already, people!
Thanks for letting me know I'm not alone in this! 
Marshall Philippe Petain was granted dictatorial powers by the French Assembly shortly after signing the Armistice with Germany.
Here's a good description of Petain. Remind you of anyone?
In his speeches, Pétain always used the personal pronoun je, portrayed himself as a Christ-like figure sacrificing himself for France and assuming a God-like tone of a semi-omniscient narrator who knew truths about the world that the rest of the French did not. To justify the Vichy ideology of the Révolution nationale ("national revolution" , Pétain needed a radical break with the Republic. During his radio speeches, the entire French Third Republic era was always painted in the blackest of colours as a time of décadence when the French people were alleged to have suffered moral degeneration and decline.
Summarising Pétain's speeches, the British historian Christopher Flood wrote that Pétain blamed la décadence on "political and economic liberalism, with its divisive, individualistic and hedonistic values—locked in sterile rivalry with its antithetical outgrowths, Socialism and Communism". Pétain argued that rescuing the French people from décadence required a period of authoritarian government that would restore national unity and the traditionalist morality, which Pétain claimed the French had forgotten. Despite his highly-negative view of the Third Republic, Pétain argued that la France profonde ("deep France", denoting profoundly French aspects of French culture) still existed, and that the French people needed to return to what Pétain insisted was their true identity. Alongside this claim for a moral revolution was Pétain's call for France to turn inwards and to withdraw from the world, which Pétain always portrayed as a hostile and threatening place full of endless dangers for the French.
Pointing out historical parallels and warnings of what's to come is NOT giving up, or surrendering, or complaining that there is nothing to be done. Rather, it is a way to highlight just how dangerously close to the precipice we are.
Once they remove the very tools that can be used to fight back, or pull us back from the abyss, it's too late.
I'm sorry, but we have...maybe...ONE election left to put a stop to their nefarious plans. That's it. One election to save our Democracy the easy way. Or, a long and hard slog through despotism, just to get back to where we are now.
It's not defeatists to appraise our situation. It's realism.
