In 1990, during the early years of the Internet, Mike Godwin enacted Godwin's Law , which states that the longer an online discussion (regardless of topic or occasion), the closer the possibility of comparison with a Nazi or Adolf Hitler. Godwin's law is that when you compare Hitler, the thread breaks and whoever compares loses the ongoing debate.
Another 30 years is fast approaching and I feel like we've reached a point in the online discussion where the debate about who to compare, the Nazis or Adolf Hitler, is endless; This is the starting point. If a public figure says that he supports the equality of races suffering from color blindness, he is immediately called a racist. If he commented on sexy women, he would immediately become the equivalent of a rapist. The fact that men and women are different makes you sexist. The fact that there is a difference between a trans woman and a biological woman makes you a transphobe and you are even accused of promoting anti-trans violence. Today, even centre-left moderators are Nazis. At the other end of the political spectrum, the extreme right is no longer paying attention to the hype: whoever is from the left of the center, that street child dealer , is completely aloof.
The problem is that the results are still applicable and the hype is over. And the lack of political debate makes the alternative to political violence even more promising. Especially in the United States, where the last presidential election was marred by political violence, the likelihood of political violence in the next presidential election, whoever wins, is very high. Not only are Republicans preparing to accept the results with their big lies, Democrats are preparing to talk about the difference between a conspiracy, an Electoral College, and a popular vote. It's nearly impossible to elect a future president in the United States without a significant portion of the population believing that the election has been stolen.
Unlike the American Civil War of 1860, there was no clear geographical division between the two sides at the time. 34% of Californians voted for Trump, 46% of Texans voted for Biden. What you think about "blue state" and "red state" is wrong. Each state has red rural areas and blue urban areas. There are more red rural districts than blue urban districts, but the number of residents in metropolitan areas is much larger. But even at this level, there are Republicans in the big cities and Democrats in the countryside. Future political violence should be like Kenosha , not Gettysburg . As a result, political violence has no chance of success, as in the case of civil war. We all will only suffer. Unless we can talk to each other again somehow.
