Not all all of us are complying.
Repression can have unintended adverse consequences (and an unknowable timeline), making it hard to predict how and how far it damages a culture. In a media-saturated society with enormous economic disparities like the one in the U.S., it’s going to be anyone’s guess how repression’s blowback is going to manifest.
The harder the GOP’s “Cheat to Win” minions work, the more obvious they appear that they are clearly afraid of something. That “something” is not going to be stuffed back in the tube like errant toothpaste squeezed out onto the bathroom counter. Too late for that.
Among the many beings on our planet who suffered during the polar vortex and Winter Storm Uri 2021, estimates have been revised upward to ~700 people in Texas who died in connection with Uri. Some froze to death. Others died in housefires, or from lack of oxygen provided by machines running on electrical power, etc.:
I spent that week trying to stay alive in my 40°F (that’s 4.444444°C) home for several days.
A lack of “burnable materials” ain’t the problem.
A grift-tastic set of GOP officeholders who have been bought and paid for by energy corporations are the problem:
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Forgive me for not laughing.
Ah, there are some projects of theirs, yes…
BUT
… from where I sit, here, now, in the middle of the Texas Hill Country, it’s not the big cities that are first to go fascist. In fact, the bigger Texas cities (Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso)…
… are least likely to be rabid conservative bastions. Er, izzat what you meant by “fascist”? Most of the 
flags, yard signs and bumperstickers I see when I drive around Texas are outside the big cities.
