Losing ground while the right rewrites history

Conservative and Republican ideology has always felt like an endless war with humanity itself, not just with America. Look back through history - during the American Civil War, it was conservatives fighting to keep slavery. When the United States was founded, they were clinging to monarchies, just like the monarchists who sat on the right side of the French parliament - that’s literally where the term “right-wing” comes from. It’s almost like “conservative” is just a label for whoever’s on their team now, nothing else. The hard-R (Republican) party has dropped any pretense at this point and is just openly about fascism and controlling people, and the only reason this circus continues is because the media needs two teams to fill airtime and too many people are stuck defending their old political identities, no matter how toxic those have become. Trump should have been disqualified the second he started acting like a wannabe dictator back in 2015, but instead, we normalized every stunt and now, almost a decade later, we’re seven months deep into a full-blown fascist slide. Republicans have always found new names for their power grabs - like calling it the War on Drugs - but it’s the same playbook every time: demonize, divide, and seize power at any cost. They don’t even pretend to believe in democracy anymore; they just weaponize the fact that Democrats try to play fair, and somehow keep dragging the country backwards with the toxic trifecta of the party, big money, and their largest voting bloc: American Christians. I’m furious at everyone who looked at Trump or Kamala Harris and just shrugged, like none of it mattered. I’m still angry at the people who voted for this, the ones who sat out because “nothing ever changes,” and honestly, even at my own parents. The week Republicans slashed a trillion dollars from Medicaid, they tried to act like everything was normal in our family group chat while my dad bragged about “millions voting red” on his birthday. Sometimes I can’t even look at him. It feels like we can’t even talk about fixing the Democrats until Republicans lose every ounce of power, not just in Congress but everywhere. Even my own family is split to the point of not speaking. I have to remind myself to look for the helpers - like court cases that are actually being won, or politicians like Zohran Mamdani stepping up - because if I let the rage take over, I’ll burn out completely. Gotta keep pushing for what’s right, even if it feels like we’re surrounded by lost causes.