I still cannot even believe any of this is happening.......

[Cirsium]

62. Crtitical points

"Fascism is not an idea to be debated, it’s a set of actions to fight."

"I was blinded, I suppose, by our friendship which had ended, I know now, well before our dialogue did."

"I had long been screaming into a human void."

"If Bannon were to be called as he is, a fascist, the marketplace of ideas would have to confront the fact that the American government is being rapidly radicalized, that things unimaginable might be around the corner, and that there are many tempting paths to full collaboration."

"The idea that we’re all in this together and that we must keep talking is dangerous, just as my commitment to friendship was, because we might find ourselves wasting time and anger on a fundamentally unbalanced dialogue, where one side is armed with ideas, and the other is armed with weapons."

"It is frightening to think we could be entering the civil war mode, wherein none of the differences and disagreements can be hashed out in discussion. It is quite possible that there is no resolution to the present situation until one side is thoroughly destroyed as an ideological power and political entity. If that is the case, the inescapable struggle requires that anti-fascist forces clearly identify the enemy and commit to defeating them, whoever they are, whatever it takes. The time of conversations with fascists is over, even if they might be your best friend from high school."

I believe that this is where we are now in the US with our MAGA family, friends, and neighbors.