This genuinely isn't funny. Like this is just a further sign that the safety barriers of liberalism are coming off. And before someone starts harassing me about liberalism is fascism state violence etc etc, the problem is this is happening with zero institutional or organized left to fight back against it. Like this is just the fascist wolf being let out of its pen, and lots of people are going to die because of where this is going.
OMG Stop being a purity pony! Learn to be pragmatic and kick the can down the road for like until your grandkids die or something while Republicans walk all over us. /s
Many people have been saying it for a while, Florida and Texas are the labratories for fascism in this country. What's going on there is likely to spread to the federal level when they get executive power again, and I don't have any hope that there will be a decent opponent to whichever flavor of fascist comes out of the republican primary for 2024.
the country was literally founded on slavery and indigenous genocide. the entire country has always been a laboratory for fascism. This is the country that did My Lai, Abu Ghraib, and Nissour Square. This is the country that actively has prison slavery. I was told "We are going to become a fascist country" when Trump was elected and I said "always have been." Both parties are in lockstep toward WW3 with China. at this point escaping the country doesn't even matter. If you're not inside America's fascist zone of influence (NATO/EU/Australia/NZ), you're somewhere America will drop bombs or do regime change.
I'm pretty wary to believe that, as much as I'd like to, because the dems will probably run some awful boring canidate if they don't run Biden's corpse, and I'm afraid it won't be enough. But maybe I'm too pessimistic, as any shred of hope for the future has already been stomped out of me.
"Proper" Fascism is averse to liberal democracy period, considering things like parliaments and electoralism and such "d***nerate" and disruptive to an ideal system with an empowered executive ready to act on behalf of the "nation". And when it comes to class conflict, the Bourgeoisie have to at least appear to act within the bounds set by the political system (thus allowing socialist movements breathing room to organize), whereas under fascism the gloves come fully off.
So yeah, while the US has always been a violent, unscrupulous Bourgeois state, it never felt the need to cross into outright Fascism since the Bourgeoisie felt "safe" enough to allow the plebs small liberties (if anything, the illusion of popular democratic participation has been helpful in taming discontent). That is, until now when the empire's zenith is past the horizon.
This genuinely isn't funny. Like this is just a further sign that the safety barriers of liberalism are coming off. And before someone starts harassing me about liberalism is fascism state violence etc etc, the problem is this is happening with zero institutional or organized left to fight back against it. Like this is just the fascist wolf being let out of its pen, and lots of people are going to die because of where this is going.
Weird how that happened...
OMG Stop being a purity pony! Learn to be pragmatic and kick the can down the road for like until your grandkids die or something while Republicans walk all over us. /s
Many people have been saying it for a while, Florida and Texas are the labratories for fascism in this country. What's going on there is likely to spread to the federal level when they get executive power again, and I don't have any hope that there will be a decent opponent to whichever flavor of fascist comes out of the republican primary for 2024.
the country was literally founded on slavery and indigenous genocide. the entire country has always been a laboratory for fascism. This is the country that did My Lai, Abu Ghraib, and Nissour Square. This is the country that actively has prison slavery. I was told "We are going to become a fascist country" when Trump was elected and I said "always have been." Both parties are in lockstep toward WW3 with China. at this point escaping the country doesn't even matter. If you're not inside America's fascist zone of influence (NATO/EU/Australia/NZ), you're somewhere America will drop bombs or do regime change.
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I can only hope that some people's analysis of "the Republicans did terribly in 2022 because of them declaring War on Wokeness" is correct.
I'm pretty wary to believe that, as much as I'd like to, because the dems will probably run some awful boring canidate if they don't run Biden's corpse, and I'm afraid it won't be enough. But maybe I'm too pessimistic, as any shred of hope for the future has already been stomped out of me.
"Proper" Fascism is averse to liberal democracy period, considering things like parliaments and electoralism and such "d***nerate" and disruptive to an ideal system with an empowered executive ready to act on behalf of the "nation". And when it comes to class conflict, the Bourgeoisie have to at least appear to act within the bounds set by the political system (thus allowing socialist movements breathing room to organize), whereas under fascism the gloves come fully off.
So yeah, while the US has always been a violent, unscrupulous Bourgeois state, it never felt the need to cross into outright Fascism since the Bourgeoisie felt "safe" enough to allow the plebs small liberties (if anything, the illusion of popular democratic participation has been helpful in taming discontent). That is, until now when the empire's zenith is past the horizon.
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