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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12367209
“Welcome to the end of democracy!” Posobiec declared. “We’re here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he said, holding his fist in the air. “That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God.”
Steve Bannon, former White House adviser, is heard in the background exclaiming, “All right! Amen!”
All Republicans are perfectly happy with the idea of having a (Christo-)fascist dictatorship in power in the U.S. . All that they care about is that the dictatorship rewards them with money and power. I know Republicans like this, people you might think were just ordinary folks, and they’re masters of telling themselves stories to justify their violence and thievery and masters at not seeing anything that might cause cognitive dissonance, to the extent that they’re capable of that at all.
How is this is okay that the entire right wing of our government is platforming this? Wouldn’t stating this make you an enemy of the United States?
It sure does!
Everyone forgets that in the decades before the Civil War everyone saw it coming and the most unionists could bring themselves to do was look for compromises the South didn’t want until there was actual shooting and entire blocs of states leaving the Union. They’re so terrified of fighting white supremacist revanchism they’d rather negotiate with it until we’re back in the middle of another Civil War.
I mean what is the realistic option? Too many voters in the US are still sleepwalking into this. If Dems get too tough, there is a real chance they will overplay that delicate position. It’s not that they are afraid of fighting white supremacists, it’s that they are afraid of throwing gasoline on the fire.
History suggests that we will get past this and this whole thing will become a cautionary tale.