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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 07:55 AM Jun 2020

At this point America has an explicitly fascist President

If you are opposed to fighting fascism what does that make you?

Demonising the media, othering POC and killing them, othering immigrants, hiding from the people, calling anti-fascists terrorists but not white supremacists or the KKK, lying and demanding law and order while at the same time calling for people to be shot for stealing / protesting... because this administration believes that they own and can actively demand control over the lives of POC and, for them, it is blindly obvious, that inanimate things that the system owns are far more important to them that the animate beings that they believe they own. Could there be anything more fascist than that??? It is a literal definition of nazi be nazi. Is there anything that Trump has missed from the fascist playbook. I can't think of anything.

Trump and his enablers have done this. But the coup is not complete. If he wins in November though, that will be a different story. I think it may be too late then. I think at that point America will be heading for Gilead country... That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on


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At this point America has an explicitly fascist President (Original Post) Soph0571 Jun 2020 OP
Of course he is! Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #1
The White Power Party has been increasingly using fascistic tactics Hortensis Jun 2020 #2
"The White Power Party" -- that sums up the GOP Hermit-The-Prog Jun 2020 #3
The White Male Power Party. Hortensis Jun 2020 #5
I fight fascists because they are fascists. Kid Berwyn Jun 2020 #4
We need this bdamomma Jun 2020 #6

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
1. Of course he is!
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:07 AM
Jun 2020

He's been promoting fascist ideas for awhile.

The main one is his effort to shut down freedom of speech and the press. That's right out of the Nazi playbook, and the primary way they took control over Germany. It was declared illegal to criticize Hitler and the Nazis. After that, all it took was some people getting hauled away by the SS, after their pro-Nazi neighbors and associates reported them for breaking that law, and dissenters soon learned they better keep their mouths shut.

Many Trump cultists would report their friends and family to the authorities for similar "violations" if they could.

Trump recently tweeted that "Antifa" (anti-fascists) would be declared a terrorist group too. (Uh huh... good luck with that!)

And never forget it was industrialists who loved the Nazis and got them started in Germany. (Just like many right-wing corporations today.)

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. The White Power Party has been increasingly using fascistic tactics
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:52 AM
Jun 2020

to keep and grow power for the past 30 years. They've finally grown obvious as their previously slow-rolling revolution comes to a head, and they'll either finally take over or be smashed.

But notably, White Power extremism, and fascism itself, is always about white MALE power. That's intrinsic to the kind of people white power groups draw, their female members serving supportive roles. In the most basic terms, white supremacy requires controlling white women's bodies, while non-white women serve as unprotected targets of their hostility toward women. As the Republican Party itself has once again become fully committed to white power, its leaders have been purging women from positions of authority, and of course moving closer to better control of reproduction.

I mention that because their enmity toward empowered women is a huge, probably fatal weakness that needs to be hit again and again. AA are 13.5% of all, non-white Hispanics not much more, whites over 70%. But women are half of us and of them -- half of every race, ethnicity, religion, and political orientation.



The fact is, when you give women rights, they destroy absolutely everything around them, no matter what other variable is involved... Even if you become the ultimate alpha male, some stupid bitch will still ruin your life.” — Andrew Anglin, DailyStormer.com

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. The White Male Power Party.
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 10:25 AM
Jun 2020

They're trying to hide that, and the white male-dominated MSM are abetting it.

Kid Berwyn

(14,876 posts)
4. I fight fascists because they are fascists.
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 10:07 AM
Jun 2020

"You don't fight Nazis because you expect to win, you fight Nazis because they're Nazis."

— Christopher Hedges

One more:

“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”

– Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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