>some independent research on the ingredients that was very disturbing

Why not post it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/zlze3e/gop_texas_attorney_generals_office_allegedly/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

...this worrisome?

>I have no issue with people becoming rich

Neither do I.

But we've allowed rich people/corporations to dump unlimited money into our government. That alone is one of the most corrupting forces in government.

>cares what one guy wants? He can have his opinion.

Well, neo nazis do. Nazis want what that guy is paying for. He's literally paying for neo nazis to get into government.

>I’m sure there is a poor person who would also like to be king of America. What does that matter?

Poor person can't pay for his views to be made reality.

>So, if nothing else, there is too much money here for fascism or socialism to take over, IMHO.

This is what was said about WW1 being impossible to break out due to how much money was being made. Lol if you think fascists care about money I've got a Kanye to sell you.

Also both Hitler and Mussolini had their major corporations taking over by supporters. So the money never really stopped flowing.

Also lol @ socialism taking over. What's that look like?

>Both sides gerrymander

I mean, up until the last 2election cycles Dems were pushing for neutral gerrymanders that are fair. GOP took it to court and had it throw out a long with the protections for African Americans that came with it. Courts protected the gerrymander as is and then Dems hard committed to gerrymandering in order to not give ground for free. Dems now gerrymander as hard as republicans do because they had to in order to keep up with republicans.

I hard disagree that Dems gerrymandered as hard as the redwave software that was used in 2006+(maybe 2008, don't remember)

>Maybe, but remember the tea party? Kinda nuts. Fizzled out

They didn't fizzle out. First off, the tea party was funded by billionaires from conception to what it became was all funded by billionaires.

Once the tea party had enough people that the GOP was bending over for corporations, the funding for the tea party dried up. And they went away. But the refusal to touch corporate taxes had remained. The tea party was retired once it did it's job.

Billionaires were fine with funding lunatics as long as they protected they profits.

Look at Peter theil, he's a billionaire that during interviews has discussed America being better off not being democratic, how it should be "run like a business", supporting a strong authority takes control of all branches of government. He doesn't say he hopes it's him, but he does stop just short. But he's in favor of a dictator at the head of the US. He's currently the one dumping cash into the craziest of the GOP. Now the Senate has people talking about Jewish space laser, going to white nationalist conventions. There are currently enough lunatics in the Senate that they can dictate who the head of the GOP is. And they are negotiating currently about how much power they'll have. They are as we speak demanding they have the power to recall the speaker at any point, by any person. That just means the craziest representatives have that much more power.

>Trump seems to have changed for the worse. But he isn’t getting any support and everyone he supported lost. Let him be blowhard. Who cares. He will fade to obscurity.

Right. But this ain't about trump. It's about the authoritarian fascist leaning of the GOP. Trump clearly has authoritarian dreams. Happy the republicans are seeing it. But...who is 2nd? Desantis is being whispered everywhere.

Desantis is also a fucken authoritarian lol so like, good on the GOP for catching up. But they aren't learning a lesson. The lesson they learned was trump lost us elections, keep the fascist part, drop the trash. As far as I can tell. Right?

Desantis used the power of government to punish a company because he felt like it was the right move politically. He used the power of government to punish brown people he didn't want in his state. And it was cheered on.

Again. I ask you, of the list of fascist government tendencies, how many did the GOP tick off for you?

>Did the brown boys beat many people up? I feel they were/are morons, but there are cameras on them most places and when they broke the laws they got arrested, didn’t they?

They did sometimes. Other times they were not arrested at all even if they were on camera. They learned masks work.

>In the end, I think the country is too strong for any fringe group to takeover.

Why is America so special? Why were other countries unable to resist fascism?

>I think the country erred in giving fringe bad actors a little too much tolerance and “freedom” recently

Could you explain this further? What specifically do you mean?

>right extremism was soundly defeated at the polls and people are predominantly against it.

...? Gerrymandering has our country down to like 15 districts in the nation that flop back and forth where it matters. I get that young voters turned out. But like...hey friend. Millions voted for the crazies. Crazies don't stop being crazy when they don't get what they want lol they ratchet it up out of desperation.

After the GOP lost, has trump gotten more sane? Or is he having dinners with Nazis?

After the GOP got slapped at the polls, did they reflect on their weak turn out and course correct? Or double down and vow to investigate Biden at all costs?

>I just don’t think it has gotten close to a critical mass

What is critical mass? Like, how would you know when you saw it?

Is it terrorists being cheered on by the largest "news network"? As we saw with pelosi's hubby?

Roaming groups of brown shirts beating people up? As we saw with the proud boys?

I understand you don't think it's gotten to critical mass, but like, what does critical mass look like?

>fascism is bad.

Good.

>We just seem to disagree about how close we are to it.

I'd agree. You ever read Umberto Ecos essay? He famously list of descriptions of fascist beliefs. I ask you read through them and really think about the current GOPs beliefs. How many do you believe apply?

The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”

The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”

The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”

Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”

Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”

Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”

The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”

The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”

Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”

Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”

Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”

Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”

Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”

I think 10-11 out of 13 fit the current GOP. How many did you get to?

>I think the crazies have always been there and that social media gives them an outlet to express themselves and allows them the opportunity to come together.

You haven't been paying attention to all the shit storms that are out there. Facebook has contributed heavily to numerous genocides. They admit it themselves. In front of congress.

It's not just crazies getting together. It's craziest getting together and spreading horse shit. If you don't know, if your depressed, hurt, angry at the world. You'll swallow the horse shit. Literally changing the chemistry that your brain craves to the shit that requires your consumption of rage bait. Propaganda works.

>I just don’t think the country is on a path to death. It’s not perfect. But I don’t think it’s that bad.

That's why I suggest you read a history book. Fascist parties don't take long to take power. It took Mussolini five years after his first insurrection to become dictator and to start political purges. Hitler took longer but once he became chancellor, only one year.

Did you see the Jan 6 insurrection coming? I did. That was trump's first attempt. Mussolini screwed up his first 2 attempts. Hitler had 3.

Watch the YouTube vid, it's a lord of the rings reference.

Hi. I love my life.

You seem to love the current situation too. Why not maintain it? Why are you ok with walking peacefully through a meadow while the government is walking on a path that leads to death. The shire ain't gonna be there bud. Don't be a pippin.

https://youtu.be/KsiNVKzsf4o

Hey bud. Did you even read what I wrote?

You think they talk about history on Fox news? On MSNBC?

Read a fucken history book, we're sleep walking into genocide.

The house speakers husband was attacked by a lunatic with a hammer. Literally a terrorist act. Members of the GOP laughed about it that night while pushing gay hate.

Do you think that makes assassination attempts more or less common?

Straight up, like, where do you think the types of politics that were seeing leads us? To a better working democracy? Or worse?

If it's worse. How bad should it be before you take note? How long should I not stress about 1/3 of the GOP thinking political violence is ok? What percentage should I start getting a bit worried?

Reading history books while watching American flavored Nazis walk the path that Italian/German fascists did tends to do that.

Never mind tucker Carlson pushing ye, editing his Nazi shit out and pushing him.

Never mind all the right wing grifters try to profit off ye while their audiences listen to Nazi talking points.

Never mind the current gop leader dining with a number of Nazis.

Never mind the supreme court that's filled with partisans.

We have a major issue at hand, the 4th pillar of democracy is failing yet again to push back against fascist ideology.

All while the world is burning itself alive, which will lead to catastrophic disasters that authoritarian love.

Basically. We have to keep fighting against this nonsense in any way we can. Cause they ain't giving up.

Literally by banishing the fascists from our countries government would push the country in the best direction.

We didn't have to go to a world war to shut our American fascist counterpart down. We just had to make sure we understood what that type of politics leads too.

Some will still cheer for the shootings of LGBT or jews. As they did in Germany in 1935+. We have to make an example of those that support that shit.

Fascists only care about gaining more power at all costs. They don't give a single fuck about people struggling with a heating bill, or food in the table.

The only way I can see us getting back on track is to follow the evidence. Mark Meadows had an inner circle of 35 government representatives that he felt comfortable discussing ways of destroying democracy in the US. I'd follow the evidence further. See who talks to who, who didn't rebuke conspiracies and the destruction of the US. And ban those from working for any government agency for life at the very least.

If you want to destroy democracy, you're not a representative that represents the people or their will.

Edit : read the death of democracy by Ben hett, how democracies die by Steven levitsky. We are walking down a path already well worn.

...it did happen.

This is the type of shit I hate.

We literally after kicking fascist Hitler's ass, dunking on authoritarian commies established a 95% tax on those raking in top profits.

And what happened? Americans middle class exploded. The pipe dream conservatives beat their meats and wives too was a progressive 95% tax. That today would be a 95% tax above 4ish million btw.

We the people can make it happen.

Register to vote if you didn't vote.

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Boo, get new material.

People die every year in the whites. Shits no joke.

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