It is really weird having grown up and formed the foundations of my political worldview under neocons who were really wily and deep statey only to have the political right switch to "We're doing Fascism, like from the Wikipedia article 'Fascism'"
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I feel like I was fighting a super scary shadowy elden ring boss and then the boss got way bigger and became like.... a ferris wheel of swastikas lumbering around
I think the part I couldn't imagine was the right dropping carefully rehearsed Bible banging for an extremely shoddy and transparent revenge based state religion that's pointless to even address
Yep yep yep. This is why I blank out now if people claim this is because of economic conditions. Clearly it's not a problem for their elite! And economic conditions have literally no effect on the supporters devotion!
I still feel surprise that a significant category of person in my life made this shift. They used to have values I could at least hope to appeal to but have turned implacable. The sort of person who used to quote Bonhoeffer now quotes Schmitt.
I have the hardest time with the fact it worked. My in laws’ neighbors (except for former Detroit Tiger Chet Lemon, who is cool) worship the guy and engage in outward displays of supplication to the Cheeto god.
my friend’s reply was like “yeah we’re not going to be around for what comes after America, the death throes of the Roman Empire lasted like 65 years at the short end of the estimate” which is fair but not comforting
I have Christian in laws who marched at tea party rallies because they loved the Constitution telling me that I don't know how to do research anytime I show them research about how Trump et al are directly harmful to their grandchildren.
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Vote Democrats On Everything! —Now Don’t Ignore The Message—Vote Democrats Every Official/Gov. Postions -To Help We The People Fight Back Against Fascism!!
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