Let's be real, if they double down the breads and circuses aren't even gonna pacify people enough to have them forget their actual problems in life.
That's probably why things got so damn polarized in recent years. Haven't you noticed that?
But
what will be their "actual problems" in life-- at least the ones that they'll be aware of? The economy is going to recover most likely, so they'll have a job to earn money to spend on food and drink and entertainment. The average person will be in average health. Wage dips aren't expected, and barring something horrific, they wouldn't hit across the board. It is unlikely that our dollar will become the German mark in 1923. How long is it going to take for the blue collar workers to realize that local manufacturing is so gone that they have to scrape up the money to learn to code or die from starvation? How long is it going to take for anybody else to realize it? Do the left overall actually care about Middle America shooting itself up full of opioids and increasingly becoming unable to bear fruits of labor on account of migrating blue collar work? Is
anyone going to talk about how our medical supply pipeline running through China royally screwed us when it came to this pandemic, or are the Democrats going to-- effectively-- make Trump the scapegoat for everything that went wrong without taking the obvious opportunity to bring some manufacturing back? It isn't just a matter of suffering, but a matter of whether or not said suffering will be responded to with learned helplessness.
They'll be teaching your kids about how it's okay to want to mutilate your genitals because the only acceptable cure for a neurological disorder that prevents you from being happy in your own skin is for everyone around you to accept a non-reality (and nobody is going to try to look for another, less invasive treatment or therapy) but they had it hard in the past.
Sure, we'll be told that murdering your child in your womb is okay, but if you disagree with that, then you just want women to be barefoot and naked and not even in control of their own bodies.
Sure, we'll be told that there's nothing to be done about rampant fatherlessness in our homes as half the population becomes increasingly emasculated as a result and become less capable of fulfilling their natural societal roles if they manage to not succumb to the criminal underworld, but it's not like societal roles were the transformed recognitions of sex-based affinities, and it's not like we can't just paper over a burgeoning criminal population with literal daddy issues by incarcerating more people
for slave labor.
It might be horrifying that we've allowed the minds of our children to be warped by oversexualization from age 10 or younger, and throngs of women are not only now enabled to prostitute themselves by the proxy of a computer screen but have been conditioned to think that being a whore is legitimately a proper thing to do with their bodies and minds, but uh... sex positivity.
It might be completely awful that intersexual relations will be all but entirely deteriorated and we treat the other like a masturbation tool while we fail to refine ourselves to be people that others can love, but... crap, I can't even satirically spin that.
And this doesn't need to be actively taught-- it just needs to be actively
tolerated. People need to stop thinking that there's any solution to these woes, or that they're even major problems. And it's easy when you can't point to a single thing causing our decline.
The worst part is that a Trump election or even a Trump reelection wouldn't be able to touch many of these things, but it would have at least kept those concerns competitive in the idea marketplace-- much more than they would have been in an effective Clinton or Biden administration. I guess the issue for a lot of it was that the will didn't exist to solidify gains and advance forward-- never mind derailment from white nationalists/supremacists/identitarians. And after Trump, the blindfold will invariably be put back on. Even the more astute may make the occasional riff about how "they're trying to shove us in the pod and make us eat the bugs!", but many won't have the morale to push back against any of that (even if they intentionally did that verbatim) and even less (and possibly, not enough) will have the sense to actually mobilize. After all, the best anybody had when Epstein inexplicably "committed suicide" in a monitored jail cell... was memes.
I can imagine CNN gushing over Biden's pets as coverup for the fact we "accidentally" an entire terrorist cabal, or WaPo talking about how Biden accidentally (actually, this time) bombing a wedding in Lebanon was a Good Thing:tm:.