Right now, the answer to authoritarianism isn’t to be quiet. It’s not matching pink outfits at a state address. It’s not throwing trans people under the bus. It’s not refusing to look at the party at all and see where it could be better. The answer is to very publicly, very loudly, very boldly, stand up. The only way to fight fascism, and this has been proven over and over and over again, is loudly, proudly, and every single day.”
Sounds infinitely better than the current Democratic/Nazi-lite party. Just don’t take money from billionaires. That’s how it starts.
The time to stand up was the day after Biden’s inauguration, with the Jan 6 Insurrection fresh in everyone’s mind, when he should have declared HitlerPig and all of his henchmen to be national security threats (which they absolutely, 100% were), and detained them for interrogation in Gitmo. There they would have learned about the False Electors Plot and the Stolen Documents, neither of which we knew about yet, and probably a lot more.
There would have been a lot of MAGA whining, but not much else, since his most loyal amd violent subjects were all doing their best to stay off the FBI’s radar. Very few would have been willing to actually get violent over it.
Sounds infinitely better than the current Democratic/Nazi-lite party. Just don’t take money from billionaires. That’s how it starts.
The problem is that your opponent will, and then they’ll win. I fear we need major electoral reform before we can squash this problem.
I too remember when fascist Germany and Italy were stopped by people standing up loudly and proudly.
Oh wait, no sorry it was the guns and violence that stopped them.
The point is that if you stand up to stop it now, hopefully we don’t have to do the violence part.
The time to stand up was the day after Biden’s inauguration, with the Jan 6 Insurrection fresh in everyone’s mind, when he should have declared HitlerPig and all of his henchmen to be national security threats (which they absolutely, 100% were), and detained them for interrogation in Gitmo. There they would have learned about the False Electors Plot and the Stolen Documents, neither of which we knew about yet, and probably a lot more.
There would have been a lot of MAGA whining, but not much else, since his most loyal amd violent subjects were all doing their best to stay off the FBI’s radar. Very few would have been willing to actually get violent over it.
Biden and the Democrats let us down badly.
100%
The time to stand up was 8 years ago. The time for action started 4 months ago.
Any American that still haven’t at the very least punched a nazi in the face deserves no respect.