• robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    How we ended up here: Following Trump,

    no. stop. history didn't start 3 years ago. rightwing christians made abortion a wedge issue in the 1970s, dominionism is older than that, and creationists have been actively sabotaging public education forever. Meanwhile democrats abandoned new deal politics for neoliberalism and constantly punch left while seeking compromise with the fascists, creating a ratchet effect on american politics.

    nd that's without even getting into the founded on slavery and genocide thing, america has always been evil and was only briefly the lesser evil 70 years ago.

    • D3FNC [any]
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      1 year ago

      No - wait. Let him cook.

      Part of me does want to critically celebrate Trump as a leftist hero for destroying America.

      But that part is a lib

      picard-direct-action

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      History didn't start there, but that's when the winds started turning such that they had actual influence. Before then they were just some fringe group without power.

      • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        their power started around when Phyllis Schlafly got going. The Federalist Society spent 4 decades stacking the courts. It is not a new problem or development, the rot is deep and liberals need to understand that if you want to actually address anything.