Complete? Hell no, wait until elections come up and they start to fall behind
Oh for fucks sake. It’s going to get much, much worse.
Just like modern Nazism, wait 60 or 80 years and there will be a generation that didn’t live through this bullshit, they’ll polish Frump’s image and worship him again.
How does a species and civilization prevent that?
It’s usually artificially manufactured by someone who wants money and control. Anarchism. Let’s get rid of capitalism, and ban the ability to hoard money while others starve. Then theres no money and power to seek.
In my lil old opinion, we can now with the internet. I’m hoping the memeing, ridiculing, and mockery of modern wanna-be dictators and fascists will help future generations to think of tyrants as the joke that they are.
I don’t know how we’ll beat capitalism, though. It seems like money and greed have infected the minds and hearts of the majority.
They haven’t hit rock bottom and when they do they are just going to start digging.
Can’t lose something you never had.
These people were always fascists, they just didn’t know it or knew to hide it.
TBF, the fact they don’t even feel the need to be hypocritical anymore is very concerning, as it indicates where the American mindset is at (“we’re white supremacists, murderers, rapists and colonizers and we don’t give a single fuck”). A third of Americans are openly Trumpian, and that’s over a hundred million demons they could throw at the rest of the world. Pretty scary.
This is the primary reason why people, countries and governments from around the world need to inoculate themselves from the usa. They are even going to merge the israeli and usa militaries so anyone linked to usa military is now complicit and supporting israel actions against their neighbors to the west, south north and east. Any country with a usa military base can no longer just point the finger because they would need to point at themselves.
Yeah the only country providing arms and money to Israel is the US. Where are you from so I can pull up the receipts?
Well… until the food gets scarce. Then they’re gonna start singing a different tune.
Yeah, then it’s Bidens fault 🤣
Thanks Obama
Yeah, I have never encountered a moral republican
Some of them used to be. But far too many of them have grown silent when their voices are most needed.
Yeah my wife was one of those. She ain’t republican no more.
If you think the R’s collapse is the lowest they can go, I’m sure someone is looking for a shovel.
Yea, I’m over here thinking the writer is an optimist if he thinks the moral collapse is complete. We’ll see some new levels of horror before it’s all done.
They will always find new depths to sink to. Definitely are good at that.
Pretty sure that happened under… Nixon?
goldwater and nixon.
But Nixon didn’t flout the Constitution, violate human rights, or engage in so much corruption, so blatantly.
Nixon had the moral conviction to at least try to keep it quiet and there was enough moral fortitude in Congress that there were consequences
lol, in the words of BTO. “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet”.
I know it can get worse but I want to pretend this is as bad as it will get for just one day dude
Leave them in power and theyll just dig a deeper hole. So much for this edumacation thang…
Pretty sure they’ve always been there, just more disorganized, quiet or under a different name. They are around you in your life right now, whether they identify as part of a specific group or not.
You know, the ones that go out of their way to tell you how good they are? How it makes them a better person? How you aren’t good enough?
Those are the ones.
The Party of Lincoln is dead
Yes, when the two parties fought tooth and nail to prevent any third voice from rising up, the people from the disassociated group decided to usurp one of the main parties, rather than try to make their own.
Literally the Republican party did this to themselves because they just couldn’t bear the thought that Trump might carve out a third party and challenge the status quo.
But the Republican party isn’t the only one this is happening too. We already see socialist entering the Democratic party. The reality should be that we have enough room to have both Democratic and Socialist party in the US. Just like we should have enough room for a Republican and Populist party.
But no, the Democrats and Republicans decided to hold onto the duopoly to the bitter end. Good riddance to both of them. It’s clear that the thing that’s eaten away the classic Republican has made the political group worse. Perhaps that which supplants the Democrats will be better than what we’ve dealt with.
The “party of Lincoln” died when the openly racist Dixiecrats became Republicans to fight against civil rights.
Ranked choice voting is the only (viable non-violent) way out of the two party system, Democrats do actually implement it given the political willpower, have done so in several places now.
There are others but they are less probable. Like having citizens’ voting blocs or whatever. Get a bunch of your neighbors to agree to all support the same issues and candidates (in a nonbinding agreement, at least in statesia. Can’t commit a (nonviolent) crime in a voting booth) and conspiracy to vote, well fuck. Like that’s the charge there. I mean you generally want to avoid encounters with the legal/criminal punishment system, but conspiracy to vote sounds like one of the best things to get arrested for.
I need a good lyricist to help bounce ideas offa (I’m not using my old piano dude, they’re busy) because conspiracy to vote sounds like the title of the best spoken word album of the 1960s. Featuring Nina
