everyone enjoying the outcome of allowing the far right to recuperate, and redefine fascism as patriotism, and peaceful protest as terrorism? really wish Democrats had listened when experts and academics told them This was going on a decade ago and that the outcomes were going to be catastrophic - ThreadSky

brainnotonyet.bsky.social • 307 days ago

everyone enjoying the outcome of allowing the far right to recuperate, and redefine fascism as patriotism, and peaceful protest as terrorism?
really wish Democrats had listened when experts and academics told them This was going on a decade ago and that the outcomes were going to be catastrophic

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jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social•307 days ago

no mystery we've a profound fear of political radicalism from the Left, and not the Right

for over 100 years we’ve been told by demagogues and a rabid conservative press to fear immigrants and dissidents, those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist ideas

we know who’s doing this

jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social•307 days ago

..the second, and equally disastrous 'Red Scare' that popped up in the late 40's was about a manufactred perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating or subverting both US society and a federal government that had recently finally delivered a ‘New Deal’ for ordinary people

um...

jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social•307 days ago

..this time we really went ballistic - literally - and the rest is recent history, present, and likely future (as long as we get one)

krisoverstreet.bsky.social•304 days ago

This was inevitable because of Democrats always prioritizing party loyalty and centrism over actually doing things for the people. Result- Democratic majorities on paper, but Republican majorities when it came to every single plank on the Democratic platforms.

osmote.net•307 days ago

They knew

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•307 days ago

I have friends and acquaintances in the countering extremism world, who literally were meeting with lawmakers a decade ago, explaining this to them, and they just don’t care

grace8ming.bsky.social•307 days ago

I work with bosnians who have been screaming into a void about this for years, including at special-invite meetings in DC, and yeah... :(

osmote.net•307 days ago

Everyone thinks they’ll survive the purges until they don’t 🙃

ppu512.bsky.social•307 days ago

I, personally, enjoyed being told (and continue to be told) that I am "overreacting" or being "alarmist" every time I tried to ring the alarm bell about rising fascist tendencies in the GOP from the point of the "Tea Party" going on forward.

Fuckin Cassandra Complex got me messed up bad.

persistingiam.bsky.social•307 days ago

Massachusetts Dems know this. They're just afraid of the cops and the Israeli gov harassment/intimidation machine. So they will destroy their own campaigns and put teenagers in danger out of pure cowardice.

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