I used to think the same thing that it might be a decade of shit first. But a lot of that is based on history and the type of revolution needed to fix this historically has taken time to get enough support.

What's different here is how crazy they are pushing things. I expected a year or two of quiet scheming to let things calm down while they use that time and their propaganda to convince more people that it's all going to be ok under their rule. Sort of like how Bezmenov talked about normalization. They seemed to totally skip that. Instead they've got a huge population of agitated people that they aren't trying to calm down but agitate more.

I still think the turnaround will be slower than most of us expect, but not something people will put up with for decades.