https://twitter.com/ashleylynch/status/1349107017152020480

Just for fun, listen to the clip and guess if Matt makes the case for fascism in it.

For extra fun, read the replies

  • BeanBoy [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    On the pod they brought up that it seems like the protesters’ plan was to appeal to the politicians they thought were sympathetic to them and ask them to do the right thing i.e. just the liberal strategy except a little more chaotic.

    • LeninsRage [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      What "plan" they had was the fantasy that those sympathetic politicians would unilaterally abolish elections, which they don't have the power to do either individually or as a group, and would not do even if they could. Only the military can do that, so they would have had better prospects targeting the Pentagon. So essentially no plan, they were trying to alter reality by willing it into existence.

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        4 years ago

        To be fair, when actions like this have taken place historically, and been successful, it's because politicians sympathetic to the cause use the momentum to take control. The problem here is that political power is so fractured and diffuse in our system that even if a Ted Cruz or some other ghoul tried, they would have been hammered down by hundreds of other equally powerful figures. The fact that the governors of both MD and VA sent in their state guard against federal law shows the kind of hurtles this strategy has.