01-24-2022, 08:50 AM
(01-23-2022, 11:31 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-22-2022, 01:55 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The Left is fact-based; the Right-wing is based on conspiracy theory and right-wing ideologies.
We don't need your trust.
The only benefit you seek Classic Xer from politics is to defend trickle-down neoliberalism, keep your taxes low and keep your guns. We on the Left are not interested in those things. I don't care if you lose your guns or have to pay higher taxes.
The American Right is losing its patience already. It has attacked the capitol and state capitols and threatened election workers with violence. It is shutting down democracy.
The American Right didn't attack the capitol. A bunch of crazy anarchist's forced entry and took over the capitol.
Sure. And Poland invaded Germany on September 1, 1939. After all such were the headlines in the Kingdom of Satan!
Quote:The American Right was/still is currently idle and waiting for Left to (foul) up and justify the need for another American Civil War.
The Hard Right is doing everything possible to give its chosen politicians every edge, shady and if necessary, illicit edge for winning every possible election that it can. In a midterm election with a Democratic President it usually has plenty of licit edges. If it gets power again, then one can be reasonably certain, as the GOP is now a semi-fascist Party as ruthless as a Marxist-Leninist Party, that it will perform a brutal crackdown on anyone and any group that strikes back or does even peaceful dissent.
If you don't believe me on this, retired General and Trump stooge Michael Flynn suggested that he would like to see our Armed Forces crack down on dissent against Trump as the Army of another country did. He mispronounced that country's name as "Minnamar"(Myanmar, formally Burma).
Don't get me wrong. There is plenty to go wrong that can, including a Russian invasion of Ukraine and a bursting of the real-estate bubble in China. But such happens with events that have no prompting in America. COVID-19 is still killing like a major war, so we are still in a Crisis era. Influential people seeking to transform America into an Apartheid state or a full-blown dictatorship? That scares the Hell out of me.
The Hard Right is simply intent on gaining power and crushing anything incompatible with its perverse dream.
Quote:Like I said, you should thank the two American Senators who recently diffused the beginning of another American Revolution/American Civil War. In less than a year, the ball will still be in your court despite a devastating political loss and fate will still be in your hands like it is now and like it was with the Confederates, the Imperial Japanese, the Nazi's and the Bolshevik's who proceeded you. Hell, the American Right basically gave the Left the power that it has and is losing today. You see, the rest of America had to see for themselves that the American Right has been right about the Left the entire time.
The Hard Right obviously wanted to keep Donald Trump President, and (for the first time in American history) electoral results be damned! Do you like predictable elections? Commie regimes reliably held elections and always won.
We liberal Democrats know well that we can lose. So it is in a democracy. So may it stay. This is a Crisis era, and one part of the danger is a Constitutional crisis when a near-majority holds democratic norms in contempt. Fascism is best explained as economically as possible as Bolshevik methods in the service of a reactionary agenda. Yes, even the Capitol Putsch reminded me in many ways of the Bolsheviks storming the Winter Palace in Petrograd in 1917. Petrograd would soon be renamed after the man who called for that takeover. You may have long known that city as Leningrad.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.