I come from a socialist hellhole (Denmark), and I can tell you, that in a way you should be very thankful that your socialist commies are somewhat dumber than ours (as hard as it is to grade stupidity at this level).

Your democrat party has gone so far off the rails that it is far easier to oppose.

In communist denmark, even though a rational person cannot consider the state anything but an uncontrollable freedom quenching monster, the average joe isnt subjected to stuff they percieve as to be anything too bad. It has gotten this way slowly, by sedating the population little by little. They are just smart enough to know that they cant impose crazy US-style lockdowns at once, or enact insane "green new deals", it comes in small bites, and it has worked.

It is also almost impossible here to gather enough support to make a difference politically, as we do not have a "winner take all" setup in our branches. Also our media, while fake news anywhere it counts, have not yet gone to the insane levels of fakeness of cnn/wapo/nytimes, so it is much harder to see. Our media is complicit, corrupt, and our entire establishment is rotten to the core.

We are now at a point where it is questionable if the medias would dare print the mohammed cartoons again, and a large amount of the population thinks it would be a bad idea to do so. Additionally probably around 90% of people think that mask mandates, even so far as forced vaccines would be a great thing. And indeed, they are now passing "epidemic laws" that would empower them to do that.

I would strongly urge anyone reading this to never ever give up even the slightest of things, for it will not be the last, and I garantuee you, a large swath of the population will happily go to a very very dark place, if they go there slowly.

I beg you, do not let it happen. And i feel 100% confident to say, that you would MUCH RATHER fight now, than afterwards.