Agreed! Though arguably they’ve been working their way to this point for quite a while. Things that would have produced loud outrage in other times barely make the news cycle now, and, for the most part, we just move along

As someone with many friends and family members who had direct experiences of dictatorship—and raised in a country grappling with the aftermath of a lengthy dictatorship, the texture of life on the ground just doesn’t often feel like an emergency, until those rare boiling up moments

People forgo something, they change small patterns, but they find ways to go on living and often forget that life could have been any other way. The dystopian images of authoritarian governments depicted by Hollywood usually represent small historical windows into peak moments of tension

The quality of life goes down, but the decay is usually felt quite slowly and gradually, unless it’s *your job* *your family* —never underestimate the human ability to adapt to awful circumstances and normalize pretty terrible things

I don’t know how you define “The left” and “centrists” —terms I didn’t use—so I’m inclined to avoid the trap of taking this up. It doesn’t address my comments.

Ok

Adding more info, context and view points, instead of repeating them.

E.g. Breaking Point hosts let Aguilar answer at length each of UG Solutions and GHF allegations against him