Did you know that people can have different moral views and live in peace with one another? It's called living in a democracy. People can think being gay is wrong and also not want to deny them human rights.
Which is just another reason exactly why it's appropriate to compare Republicans to the NSDAP. Only one party's supporters are sending bomb threats to fucking children's hospitals. Only one party's supporters rioted at the Capitol in a bid to overthrow the Constitution. Only one party's supporters are cheerleading murdering their political opposition in the streets. The presumptive House Majority leader is currently campaigning on stripping committee assignments as
retaliation for a bipartisan vote stripping a Congresswoman of her assignments because of comments she made supporting murdering Democrats, because the Republican Party leadership wants to make it absolutely clear that it endorses those threats.
If you can't be bothered to read my posts, that's not my problem. Here is what I wrote verbatim:
Why take the most radical politicians? Let's take the mainstream. Both the Trump and the Biden government colluded with Twitter to suppress persons and opinions they did not like. Throughout the later stages of COVID, Democrat lawmakers routinely extended mask mandates and kept schools shut down despite (in my opinion) a lack of real need for this, and opposed to a real need to open up society again. Joe Biden has pushed forth student loan forgiveness using a COVID relief bill, despite being told beforehand that this was unconstitutional. Democrats criticized the Great Barrington delegation despite continually saying "follow the science". And the state I live in, Hawaii, instituted a "vaccine passport" to enter businesses (which was not illegal, but was highly authoritarian in my opinion).
The mainstream Republican currently believes elections don't count so long as Republicans don't win. The mainstream Republican believes that centuries of previously established jurisprudence should be replaced with a partisan rubber stamp. The mainstream Republican believes blood libel narratives about Democrats and gets their updates on said blood libel from
literal child pornography sites. You can't separate the "radical" from the "mainstream" because radicalism (specifically, fascism) is the mainstream of the Republican Party.
Also, if you think covid passports are "authoritarianism," then you don't know what authoritarianism is. Literally the only people who think this are far-right lunatics and irrelevant Soviet-era communist assets desperate for their old Russian paymasters to pay them attention *cough*Agamben*cough*
Agreed, centrists aren't good enough. We need progressive democrats
"centrist" and "leftist" are increasingly irrelevant terms in American political discourse. There are as many "leftists" who enable the fascists as there are "centrists" that do. Plenty of the best allies of the Republican Party today are media figures who have long identified as "leftists" (Krystal Ball, Kyle Kulinski, Matt Taibbi, Briahna Gray, Glenn Greenwald, Lee Fang, Ryan Grim, Michael Tracey). Some have outright come out and stopped pretending to be anything other than Republicans (ie Aimee Terese, Sh0eonhead, and the Red Scare twats), even to the detriment of their Patreon funding.
How politicians brand themselves should never be "good enough," the only question that matters right now is whether or not they are going to enable the Republican Party's decade-long assault on democratic institutions in America, and what they intend to do about the violence Republicans are routinely inciting.
Only one party's supporters are sending bomb threats to fucking children's hospitals.
Only one party is mailing ricin to Senators.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politics/maine-susan-collins-letter-threat/index.html
Only one party's supporters rioted at the Capitol in a bid to overthrow the Constitution.
Only one party is shooting Senators at baseball games
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shooting
Only one party's supporters are cheerleading murdering their political opposition in the streets
Only one party is calling for protestors to harass government officials
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/politics/maxine-waters-trump-officials/index.html
The Democratic party spent much of the last two years trying to abolish the filibuster because they couldn't get legislation passed with a majority. The Democratic party has been calling to pack and undermine the legitimacy of the court because they dont agree with the verdicts being handed down.
Both parties are running trucks into people they don't like. Both parties refuse to concede races they don't win. (
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/georgia-governors-race-stacey-abrams/index.html).
I'm gonna have to dip out of this yall. Sorry I can't reply to you Wigglytuff. Its been fun, but there's like 7 of yall and 1 of me (which is fine) but that means I'm writing a lot of replies and that takes a lot of time. Which I wont have, because my finals start tomorrow so I gotta shift gears .
Peace.
I'm gonna have to dip out of this yall. Sorry I can't reply to you Wigglytuff. Its been fun, but there's like 7 of yall and 1 of me (which is fine) but that means I'm writing a lot of replies and that takes a lot of time. Which I wont have, because my finals start tomorrow so I gotta shift gears .
Peace.
hope you dont get a true false question on your finals, because boy your teacher/prof is in for a wild ride
Only one party is mailing ricin to Senators.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politics/maine-susan-collins-letter-threat/index.html
Only one party is shooting Senators at baseball games
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shooting
Only one party is calling for protestors to harass government officials
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/politics/maxine-waters-trump-officials/index.html
The Democratic party spent much of the last two years trying to abolish the filibuster because they couldn't get legislation passed with a majority. The Democratic party has been calling to pack and undermine the legitimacy of the court because they dont agree with the verdicts being handed down.
Both parties are running trucks into people they don't like. Both parties refuse to concede races they don't win. (
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/georgia-governors-race-stacey-abrams/index.html).
Most of these are willful misrepresentations trying to draw false equivalence between a party routinely inciting and engaging in violence, and its opposition. For the ones that actually happened, all the Democratic leaders interviewed or questioned about the Scalise shooting or the ricin scare outright condemned them. AOC didn't fucking well give out speeches saying that she would have made sure Scalise had a bullet in his brain, Stacey Abrams isn't telling people that she's the legitimate governor of Georgia and that her supporters must storm the government, and campus Democrats sure as shit aren't inviting openly fascist parties aligned with America's enemies and telling their supporters to fight everyone who opposes them in the streets.
You're full of shit and doing little more than providing apologia for terrorists. There's no difference between you and "moderate" mullahs in the Taliban trying to tell the world how great women have it in Afghanistan.
Koista 12 said:
The Democratic party spent much of the last two years trying to abolish the filibuster
As they should, cause the Filibuster in 2022/21st century in any shape and form is a undemocratic implementation that allows to block most legislation that needs senate backing, but only gets a simple majority from senators elected by the majority of american people (tho even that isn't necessarily true because of the US election system). So a minority can block even legislation that doesn't change the constitution from representatives of a party/coalition elected by the majority of the people. For such a "concerned anti-authoritarian" you seem to happily accept archaic undemocratic laws & amendments, but that doesn't surprise me in the least anymore considering your fascism apologia and even straight up stochastic terrorism denial (against LGBTQ+ & especially transgender people).
The existence of the Filibuster is one of the big reasons why basically every Democracy Index rates USA only as "Flawed Democracy" btw, some even seeing USA on the edge to become a "Hybrid Regime". A regression fitting into the global trend of weakening democracies, by a huge margin pressured the most by right-wing extremism (including from the republican party).
https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking
https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de...2/february/democracy-under-pressure-worldwide
If you can't be bothered to read my posts, that's not my problem. Here is what I wrote verbatim:
Why take the most radical politicians? Let's take the mainstream. Both the Trump and the Biden government colluded with Twitter to suppress persons and opinions they did not like. Throughout the later stages of COVID, Democrat lawmakers routinely extended mask mandates and kept schools shut down despite (in my opinion) a lack of real need for this, and opposed to a real need to open up society again. Joe Biden has pushed forth student loan forgiveness using a COVID relief bill, despite being told beforehand that this was unconstitutional. Democrats criticized the Great Barrington delegation despite continually saying "follow the science". And the state I live in, Hawaii, instituted a "vaccine passport" to enter businesses (which was not illegal, but was highly authoritarian in my opinion).
Read it. Confirmed you weren’t able to answer my question because you had nothing.
The existence of the Filibuster is one of the big reasons why basically every Democracy Index rates USA only as "Flawed Democracy" btw, some even seeing USA on the edge to become a "Hybrid Regime". A regression fitting into the global trend of weakening democracies, by a huge margin pressured the most by right-wing extremism (including from the republican party).
https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking
https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de...2/february/democracy-under-pressure-worldwide
How can we trust you aren't "cherrypicking" these random(!) respected watchdogs on democratic quality around the world?? How can we really be sure that the party that wants to "
cross the Rubicon" is actually seeking to destroy democracy?
I don't get this. Are you denying that political focus on systemic racism is a new development in mainstream politics? I hate to be that guy, but where's the proof? In what election prior to say, 2016, did either party focus on the issue of "systemic racism" and identity politics in the US? Where were all the Robin DiAngelos and Ibram X Kendis prior to the mid-2010s? Where was all the discourse on critical race theory? I don't remember that playing any significant part in politics in the 90s and 2000s. In fact, I do remember being told that "color-blindness" was a prominent view of racial politics through those eras, and that's an attitude that the left disagrees with and wants to change. I'm not discrediting those ideas based on their newness. I'm not saying that America had no racial tensions during those eras. (Affirmative action has been contentious for a while). I'm simply stating the plain fact that widespread belief in "systemic racism" and identity politics is a new phenomenon and new outlook on the big stage of racial politics.
The idea that its only white americans who dont accept systemic racism as a concept is laughable. The GOP as whole does not accept it. Centrists as whole either oppose it or are not decided. Its an idea popular in the American left, and it's a newly popular idea. Also, in 2020, 60% of Americans identified as white. In 2000, 75% did. White people comprise the majority of the population in the U.S. So even if we accept the claim that it's only white people who don't believe in racial identity politics in 2020 (which isnt true), that's still a huge portion of the nation that doesn't buy into it, and of course other racial demographics in the U.S. can vary in their acceptance of it. "Systemic racism as an idea has been a popular belief in the U.S. for a long time" is not the hill to die on.
I also forgot to quote this but it's hilarious to ask where racism scholars were for the past three decades when they've been producing immense amounts of research. You only weren't hearing about it because the Republican Party only really started making it into a bogeyman a couple years ago. Your question speaks looooaads about where you get your information.
And no, it's basically white Americans that only think American society isn't systemically racist. Changing the qualifier to "most Republicans" doesn't change the fact that you're still talking about a group that's overwhelmingly white Americans.