The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Classic-Xer]

(09-16-2020, 01:35 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:  

Donald Trump is a fascist. He simply forgot to read the fascist playbook and started going after backsliders and milquetoasts in his own Party before outlawing or co-opting the Opposition. He was even late in establishing a Secret Police. He did get the Newspeak and the Personality Cult right.

Don't worry, Classic X'er; if something goes really wrong in America, like a Great Depression that gets blamed on Democrats or some huge military or diplomatic debacle, then someone from the Hard Right will achieve your dream of 95% of the people suffering for 2%, people compelled to adopt 'American' culture instead of 'foreign' influences such as Bach, Dostoevsky, and Cezanne, all political life 'coordinated' along the ideas of the Great and Infallible Leader, education dedicated to conformity and obedience instead of intellectual inquiry, and a narrower definition of what it means to be an American. Who needs culture when one works two jobs just to pay loansharks and landlords and struggles with food?  

Of course there will be some inconveniences. People that you know might disappear into the Night and Fog after being accused of a smarmy joke against the Great and Infallible Leader. Culture will be numbing in awfulness. The ability of people to express complex thoughts that make life rich will erode (George Orwell had 'Winston' and 'Julia" struggle with love in the most incompetent expression of romance ever in Nineteen Eighty-Four... because if people cannot love, then all that one has is a crush that either ends in a marriage of convenience that goes stale fast, a fling that goes nowhere, or becomes rape -- now you know!) Life will be impoverished  in many ways that you think impossible, and not only economic. Because 95% will be living in abject poverty within twenty years if the dreadful system is not overthrown by them (elections will be as meaningless as those in the old USSR)...  You will be treated like a galley slave and you will be expected to express how great it is to be a galley slave and how horrible it would be to live under the confusion that is necessary for liberty as I know it. 

Know well that the Nazis and the Stalinists both spoke of their infernal systems as definitive expressions of freedom and the truest form of democracy as opposed to the "plutocracies".

How many years have you been into peddling/spreading Liberal propaganda? I've only known you and have been reading the content of your posts for about a decade or so. As I recall, you were even doing it as Obama was in office sucking up to rich (mainly white) people and select groups of corporations with political ties and so forth.