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Donald Trump vows to lock up political enemies if he returns to White House
(www.theguardian.com)
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Anytime there's a conversation about trump, fascism, and white supremacists in America, there's always at least one of the "dEmOcrAtS sHoUld HaVE dOnE MoRe" crowd. It's so stupid, I can't help but think it's very intentional misdirection. Like it's some astroturfed bullshit from a conservative think tank.
America is shitty for the poor (there is no middle class anymore). So at this point, if voting for someone who is not a fucking fascist dictator is all we can do, then that's what we're going to do.
Yep, and the GD "liberal media" is not helping when they continue to play this horse race nonsense like the cowardly corporate quislings that they are. They are acting like nothing is really at stake other than which party is running things and that "both sides" are more or less equal.
This is just not true.
While low-key promoting Trump as the de facto front-runner in the process
True - just like in 2016, they played the "oh my word, some people find Hillary problematic, or too shrill, or too much non-male, and whataboutthoseemails and isn't she over-prepared for debates, and ermagawd she fainted, I tellz ya!" and other stupid and dangerous games.... - they are now doing the "some people" find Biden too old, etc.
Joe Quimby is so weak he allowed Sideshow Bob, a convicted criminal, out of prison. So you should vote for Sideshow Bob!
It isn't all we can do, but it's a pretty good thing to do. It's part of my Diversity of Tactics.
The real question is, how do I know this isn't some kind of misdirection from an even more dangerous opinion for both parties?
What you think is irrelevant. You're just as powerless as the rest of us to stop this.
We voted anti-fascist in 2020. What we got was (depending on where you live) a 30% - 50% cost of living increase, a trillion-plus war spending per year (and we can't know the exact figure because we're funding other countries' wars now too), a national abortion ban, and zero action on housing scarcity on top of it. We got no meaningful action against anyone involved in the January 6th domestic terrorist attack, despite Biden having Congress on top of the presidency. We might be lucky and get one high-profile Proud Boy behind bars, maybe.
This isn't an intentional misdirection. This is reality.
The people we voted for did a shit job, and as we saw in 1930's Germany, no one is going to care if a person is fascist or not if that person is the candidate of change. 2024 is a lost cause, and it's because Democrats didn't do more when we handed them power.
Coat of living going up by ridiculous levels is a global issue, not an exclusively American problem, and certainly not caused exclusively and personally by the current American president.
IMO COL increases were mainly driven by record inflation in housing due to COVID coinciding with record low interest rates. Then there was also the cartel setting the price of gas high to recoup their pandemic belt-tightening, legitimate and illegitimate supply chain issues, and corporate interests hiking prices in order to pad their profit margins as the government cheese shop was starting to close up.
These conditions were somewhat similar no matter which country you live in, and played out in similar ways on a global scale.