While liberals clutch their pearls and draft sonnets to the rule of law, the reactionaries are busy sharpening their knives. They understand what their opponents seem to have forgotten: power is not persuaded—it is taken.
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Look, I've signed the online petitions. I've shared memes. I gave a very pointed look to someone who loudly expressed hate speech in my presence. What else can I be expected to do? I couldn't possibly descend to their level. What of my inflated sense of self worth and superiority?
That's pretty much the attitude. Extend that to our MoCs: fired off a strongly worded tweet, gave a fiery speech on the Floor of the House/Senate, held a presser where I warned against the horror of Trump and told folks to stand up and fight back. My work is done...because we are better than that.
100%. Folks on Facebook should watch this video. This Johns Hopkins historian is on the mark!!! Democratic politicians are not coming to the rescue. The US people have to save themselves.
The reactionaries do not revolt to take power, the plutocracy take power via buying the votes of the Reactionaries via their money and propaganda power.
I'm up here north of the 49th looking south at the decline.
History is replete with examples of dictators who first stripped the country of wealth, and then imposed draconian laws to subjugate the majority into a state of malaise. Trump is the first domino.
Coup by Kevin Roberts and his ilk at Heritage Foundation with Project 2025 and their undisclosed 180-day Transition Playbook are delivering a "revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it." And if elon musk wants to be king, um, ok. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FznbfmZ0JZE&t=13s
It’s true, the left have never taken to “Grab ‘em by the pussy.” What these dolts are and have been bullying isn’t power, so much as the ability to derail power.
Fear of violence, the potential for violence is a source of power. Once the use of violence is taken off the table, a movement cripples itself. America has a rich history of political violence. We need to take inspiration from that history.
Democracy is not our natural state. It is an achievement, and a fragile one. Those who mistake it for a permanent condition will find themselves ruled, soon enough, by those who never shared the delusion.
Many in the general public believe they will experience a benefit as long as trump is in power, even with unfettered power. He so much as told them so. This is the mystery of faith.
They offer you the illusion of choice, the illusion of freedom. But true power lies not in choosing between masters, but in choosing to be your own master. Take that power. Claim it. And never relinquish it.
So far the only thing that’s is definitely going to happen is an election in less than 2 years. So hopefully everyone decides to go vote out as many Republicans as they can so they lose control of Congress and more States.
Several reasons:
1. They’ve always happened, even during the Civil War.
2. The Republican Party is already gearing up for it, raising money, getting their candidates ready, etc.
3. Elections are controlled by the States, not the Federal Government.
I'm not trying to be a dick and I sincerely hope you're right. Going forward, I will be acting as if we will not be having elections anymore. I'm ok with being an overprepared fool in the face of a fascist takeover.
My husband seems to think they’re just giving him enough rope to…. He’s going to crash the markets, sky high inflation, huge unemployment numbers and all leading to a recession. 🤷♀️
If he goes down then we get a Musk/Vance regime and that has potential to be even worse. Used to think w/out Donny to hypnotize them, MAGAs would wake up, but they seem to be idolizing Melon now so idk...
Maybe. But even without MAGA, there is the broligarchy. They are already hiring mercenaries and fortifying their homes and businesses. Senior GOP seems more afraid of Melon than Felon. A lot may boil down to what the military will do when faced with an unconstitutional order.
Yea, we've been saying that since 2017. It's not happening. The longer we wait, the more power he will have consolidated, the harder it will be to get rid of him and his scum.
The Bolsheviks used pretty much this exact language. How'd that turn out? The real weakness of the oligarchs is that their only commitment is to themselves and their money. They will retreat if there is a mass movement of peaceful resistance. Unfortunately, a lot of suffering will happen first.
The problem with this post is that liberals and reactionaries are not and have never been opponents. The Biden presidency was a reaction to Bernie Sanders not Donald Trump. Fascism is just capitalism in decay, the Dems love Trump.
Within 12 months of Hitler seizing total power he was arresting political adversaries and having them summarily executed. Its been the game plan of the vast majority of dictators every where all of the time.
lol no all that twat cared about was keeping things exactly the same or making them even worse for ordinary americans, there choice was literally between hitler and mussolini
Who’s sharpening knives? I don’t see that happening. The only sharpened knife i see is Elon’s Tesla logo which is actually a shiv. No one is standing up. Modern “reactionaries” are posting from the homes and that does nothing and the Repugs know it. There is no opposition.
The President and VP are traitors to the USA pushing Nazism abroad on our behalf. This is an act of war. Obeying their orders is treason. They allowed Elon’s Academi mercs to take over our buildings and our data. We are under attack. We must respond. No crime no violence. God bless America!
There are many definitions of "liberalism" fair enough.
But the post war liberalism that has evolved thrives on cultural divisions and identity politics. If Trump is really a unique evil then the Democratic Party needs to move right and become a broader tent.
Not sure what problems you expect the government to solve, but consider that some left of center ideas are just fundamentally unpopular. Therefore they are never implemented. It's not something that arguing on social media can solve, they're just not going to happen.
Trump quite literally just won running on extreme Leftism.
So what are you talking about?
Trump’s campaign was nearly indistinguishable from the Bolsheviks movement a century ago. Shit, he wants political control of the Central Bank. That’s Communism 101. And he won.
Just like a "centrist" government will never happen. Because every time they have been tried, they are completely impotent to change anything for the better. And are wildly unpopular almost as soon as they are in power.
And whatever you're yammering about isn't gonna happen either...do you not understand that what you're looking at is a Coup? The systematic dismantling of our institutions? JFC, do you not recognize a Tyrant when you see one? Do you think he will let himself be voted out?
Purchased power is subject to the highest bidder's bid and is fleeting. Real power is endowed, not taken from those you want real power over. 31.5% of the population let themselves be used in the purchase of fleeting power. Now, what will the other 69.5% do about that? That's the question. 🍸👽🚬
Dem/lib establishment is still incredibly worried about the standard of decorum that conservative media holds them while rule of law means nothing these MAGA hustlers shaking down the American public. It’s been the Achilles heel for far too long. Can we finally stop bringing a knife to a gun fight?
some people are still in favor of power with we the people, just voted for a guy who made them feel better. If anyone likes our view of the constitution then we should pick them up. Duke out the mid left/right part later. Some right policies we don’t like but this faction wants more authoritarianism
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I don't think I'd call them reactionaries. They already knew this was coming.
That process is based on money and propaganda.
The reactionaries do not revolt to take power, the plutocracy take power via buying the votes of the Reactionaries via their money and propaganda power.
The plutocracy buy and lie their way to power.
History is replete with examples of dictators who first stripped the country of wealth, and then imposed draconian laws to subjugate the majority into a state of malaise. Trump is the first domino.
We need a new plan folks or this will never get off the ground.
Decency and compassion are notions of a by gone era and they aren’t coming back.
So far the only thing that’s is definitely going to happen is an election in less than 2 years. So hopefully everyone decides to go vote out as many Republicans as they can so they lose control of Congress and more States.
1. They’ve always happened, even during the Civil War.
2. The Republican Party is already gearing up for it, raising money, getting their candidates ready, etc.
3. Elections are controlled by the States, not the Federal Government.
Something's definitely up.
I genuinely wonder if it'll be an NSA/CIA inside job.
Vance is an unliked nonentity who has zero cult of personality. Senior GOP would be less likely to bow to him.
The cult dies when the leader goes away.
It has to be getting discussed at this point.
But please allow me to celebrate if/when he's no longer here.
There’s a word for that: authoritarianism.
Now they do not. At all.
Trump is going on day 28.
Actually win elections. Appeal to a variety of people including gun owners, families with six figure net worth and religious people.
The United States is founded on liberalism.
But the post war liberalism that has evolved thrives on cultural divisions and identity politics. If Trump is really a unique evil then the Democratic Party needs to move right and become a broader tent.
How much further right should they go?
So what are you talking about?
Trump’s campaign was nearly indistinguishable from the Bolsheviks movement a century ago. Shit, he wants political control of the Central Bank. That’s Communism 101. And he won.
Fact; the middle east has been stealing everything from everyone since day 1.
Time to fucking wake up.
In a numbers game we’ll need every MAGA that sees the constitution as we do.
as awful as the mess we're in is...that made me laugh. Kind of hysterically...but laugh nonetheless. 😁