When do we all start labeling them as Fascists

[vlyons]

because that's what the GOP has become. Because that's what they are.

[OLDMDDEM]

1. Answer.

Four years ago. Most of us saw it back then. Finally, many, many more see it now.

[Zorro]

2. I've been labelling them Fascists for the past 50 years

[ananda]

9. You've been ahead of the curve.

I started in 2000 after the Florida vote fiasco.

I saw it as corporate fascism for a good while;
and while corporatism is a driving force, it has
evolved into a particularly virulent form of
rightwing ignorance and conspiracy theory.

I never saw the original Nazis as that ignorant,
and it took a worldwide fight to root it out for
a little while. But when it came back, it took on
a different look.. just like you and me while being
normalized in a particularly effective manner by
a corporate owned complicit media..

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Right fucking now!

Was it ever a question? Congressional Republicans have been that for years, even before Trump. But credit Trump for bringing the Fascism out in them.

[treestar]

4. We should already have done so, as soon as they

labeled us socialists.

[Voltaire2]

14. wrong answer.

This isn't a schoolyard insult contest.

The Republican Party is now a fascist political organization, not because they hurt our fee-fees, but because they advocate and implement fascist policies.

[treestar]

17. That is not what I said.

I meant exaggerate the way they do.

[Voltaire2]

19. wrong answer

It is not an exaggeration. The fact that you think it is, at this point, is stunning.

[treestar]

22. They haven't gotten a fascist state

the courts are still functioning and shutting down their lawsuits. The press is still saying whatever they want about the Dotard and comedians are still making fun of him. No one has been executed for it. No tanks are in the streets. The legislatures are still functioning and each state still has its reserved powers.

[Voltaire2]

24. Ok then, you don't think the Republicans are fascists.

That is where our conversation started. I disagree. The Republican Party is now an overtly fascist party that, right now, is supporting an attempted coup.

You think it is just name calling and hyperbole. Stunning.

[treestar]

25. Not clearly. It's not exactly the platform of most of them.

And Trump has lost. They don't win with the fascist that the EC let in.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. And Storm Troopers.

Don't hold back.

[ananda]

7. I was just thinking this morning..

It's very hard to come out of Nazism or fascism peacefully.

In fact, all this waiting is just excruciating.

[Iggo]

13. Yep. That bothers me.

A lot.

[magicarpet]

8. If you act like a Fascist,... you will be called a Fascist....

.... but they get hurt and offended by the label.

STOP BEING A FASCIST !

Problem solved.

[brewens]

10. Start? I think we have all along. But I guess you mean the media and our side in Congress.

But it's been going that way for decades on the right, trump just ramped it up exponentially.

[Iggo]

11. 1984. (n/t)

[lark]

12. Done.

They earned that label starting with the Bush steal and have been in that corner every since.

[Shell_Seas]

15. Ummm...I though we already did that, months ago.

[relayerbob]

16. Jan 20, 2016

Or maybe Jan 20, 2001.

Your choice

[HAB911]

18. For a long time now

[ooky]

20. I've been doing that.

I was even (inexplicably) excoriated by someone when I pointed out policies that were fascist in nature, but there can be no denying that is clearly the direction they have been trending in. I guess reaching the point that they are trying to cancel the election results to reinstall a dictator is a pretty solid indicator of what they are about, and it's sure not democracy.

[ananda]

21. This Jane Austen quote, tweaked a little, really says it all in a way...

In the fictional film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, the character of Eben Ramsey quotes Jane Austen, adding a little tweak that I think really strikes home for all of us: "Manners is what holds a society together [that and a reliable postal service]. At bottom, propriety is concern for other people. When that goes out the window, the gates of hell are shortly opened and ignorance is King.” "

Wow. The club was formed to appease the Nazi occupiers of Guernsey who would otherwise have discovered that one of them had withheld a pig to roast for a gathering of friends and family. It's just amazing.

[Hotler]

23. I'm waiting for the talking heads at CNN, MSNBC etc. to use the word fascist.

They seem to dance around it. I wonder if management has told them not to use to word. Might be too harsh, wouldn't want to further divide the country or hurt repug feelings.