US Authoritarianism

anti-fascism

"Hm, funny, I don’t seem to remember mentioning antifa…"

fascinating, technically not quite the same, but antifa isn't exactly structured enough to make it much different anyway.

I don't recall saying anything negative about antifa specifically either.

Fascism doesn’t become an unstoppable force overnight without first having been enabled and appeased in at least the decades leading up. I’m sorry that you don’t have the understanding, motivation, or imagination to ask for any intervention before this point, from people who have real power to intervene.

yeah, that's kind of the problem no? This is why i'm asking how we deal with it, you still havent proposed a reasonable answer to this problem. This is literally the boiling frog problem.

There are a couple of options, you could make fascist far right politics fundamentally illegal like in germany. Oh wait, the far right still exists over there. And like i said, in a place like america, you're probably going to run into problems with free speech.

fascism isn't exactly externally enabled, aside from any outside "stopping force" which is also arguably, fascist in some capacity. The vast majority of the enabling comes from within the party, and it builds slowly over time, eventually reaching a point where people realize. "hey we're in a pot of boiling water and i think we're about to die" or "hey uh, we're murdering jews now? That's uh, not cool"

like what are you expecting us to do? Act like the mother of a bad child at the sign of any inkling of fascism and go "hey guys, i see that you're doing a fascism here, maybe uh, you shouldn't be doing this?"

I’m not the person you asked, nor do I have the answers to the universe, and I suspect that they do not either.

that's fine, neither do i, and this would be the reason i asked them. But i find it counter productive to complain about shit tangential to really big problems, without being able to propose a solution. There's a discussion to be had here about the lack of concern over the rise of fascism, but i don't think blaming the democrats for the entirety of it is the answer to that question.

Sure would be nice if our elected officials would do literally anything in the face of clear power grabs

that would certainly be nice, and let me remind you, we tried to impeach trump twice the people who got in the way were republicans, both times. The second one was literally because "you can't impeach a non sitting president" which is stupid.

EVERY case of his currently in the courts is being constantly delayed by his lawyers, the supreme court, the judges even. LITERALLY EVERYTHING conservatives can put in the way of it, is being put in the way of it right now.

i mean an ENTIRE state, tried to remove him from their ballot.

we're TRYING to do things, but the primary stopping force, is actually republicans.

If I’m a tankie just for asking that of our representatives, then so be it.

i don't think that makes you a tankie alone, considering that even the republicans are our representatives, but blaming the democrats, when they seemingly keep trying to stop a second trump term from being a possibility, continually get shut down by republicans through the process, it seems either extremely ignorant to me, or conveniently ignorant to the point where you can advance a tankie line of reasoning complaining about democrats and calling them just as bad if not worse than republicans, even though that's patently false. (this part specifically being tankie)