At a minimum, could we please be honest about what and who we are fighting? [View all]

[maxrandb]

The Retrumplicans are fascists. They are pushing and dragging us into fascism. The oligarchs that control most of American media, social, or otherwise, are funding fascism! PERIOD!!!! FULL STOP!!!!

IMHO, using X, Facebook, Amazon is funding fascism. NOT taking action to determine, if the corporations, businesses and individuals that benefit from my spending, are also funding fascism, makes me a supporter of fascism.

When I have written that buying something from Amazon, or using/buying anything associated with Musk, or Zuckerberg is "akin to buying a Volkswagen in 1933 Germany", some have pointed out that "these current times don't equate to the Holocaust".

You know? They're right.

In 1933 Germany, there was no Holocaust.

Germany wasn't a fascist police state on 29 January, 1933. It was on 29 March, 1933.

Germany didn't round up millions of Jews, Gypsies, gay, handicapped and mentally disabled people, and ship them off to concentration camps...UNTIL IT DID!!
There wasn't a Holocaust.....until there was!

It simply can happen here.

To prevent that, it is going to take an effort similar to the fight for Civil Rights, or somewhere between that level of resistence and Gettysburg.

One of the first steps to fascism is to make the opposition irrelevant. It's too make the opposition disappear.

I argue that we are about halfway through that "first step".

We are "invisible" to them. They could care less about the 76 million that didn't vote for Donnie Dipshit, they are going to "govern" as if we don't exist. What scares me the most, is that if you caught them in an honest moment, they would admit that they much prefer we didn't exist.

That's not hyperbole, because I have seen it firsthand.

John Kasich won the governorship in Ohio by 50.8% of the vote. He also had a Retrumplican majority state legislature. He "governed" as if he won with 98% of the vote. They passed gerrymandered maps and put sychophants into positions of power that oversaw elections. Today, they could win 44% of the state-wide vote in Ohio, and control 70% of the states political power.

I saw that with my own eyes. It was downplayed, as we were told; "surely moderate Ohio state Retrumplicans wouldn't allow such an undemocratic power grab." Guess what, when push came to shove, there were no moderate Ohio Retrumplicans.

Maybe we forget, but they didn't even acknowledge the 81 million people that voted for President Biden. A violent coup had to be put down, and they spent the entire 4 years of Biden's presidency arguing that he was illegitimate. In others words, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE 81 MILLION AMERICANS were also illegitimate/INVISIBLE.

Look at what they've done in North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee and in EVERY STATE they have a trifecta.

I am tired of people telling me we aren't devolving into fascism, when I am watching it takes shape with my own eyes.

We had better wake up quick, but at a minimum could we at least be honest about who, and what these people are?