This is what the new GOP they are 100% embrace white supremacy and are welcoming fascism into America.
We must stop them by voting and if that doesn’t work…
It’s depressing how shallow our progress has proven to be.
This isn’t new. They’ve always wanted this. The only new thing is that now they feel emboldened to actually do it.
And every single person who feels safe right now because this isn’t affecting them is in for a very rude awakening.
I live in Texas. I know these people. They think American = white, cis, straight, conservative. They will stop at nothing. They don’t care who gets hurt.
They believe it’s better for 10 members of the in-group to by punished than to let 1 member of the out-group live in peace, just as long as they’re not one of the 10.
100% accurate.
Whats sad is this is only a few of their recent things. Its hard to keep track of all the crazy.
My outrage is, and has been, very real, but the question is how do we unscramble this egg? Yes, I vote in every election and the primaries. I do my due diligence on candidates and amendments. I regularly write my elected officials with my concerns and strongly held perspectives. I try to engage in local politics just as much as I do national. I go to protests and rallies to show up for my causes. I share political news that angers and frightens me, petitions speaking to those issues, and I try to do it in a way that doesn’t just vent into the void, but encourages consideration in others. I have dialogues with my older or ignorant friends and family that I feel might be reached by constructive conversations. I am exhausted. And I feel completely powerless.
I live in a blue mid sized city in a red state. In the midst of COVID lockdowns, they redistricted us yet again to further disenfranchise me with gerrymandering. SCOTUS is stacked with lifetime appointments. Congress is a circus. Trump is still a free man and may very well run again for president. How do we wake up from this collective nightmare?
How do we unscramble this egg?
Biologist here. The easiest way to unscramble an egg is to feed it to a chicken.
I think one of the main problems we’re confronting is that about a third of the electorate is fine with the violent overthrow of democracy and its replacement by christian nationalist hegemony, while another third wants to treat it as politics as usual. The latter is where we get things like the media talking about the “debate” over J6.
It’s the normalization of (frankly) fascism that makes people think it’s a legitimate political position rather than an existential threat to the US. Gilead has been brought up so often that it feels trite to say it, but I think it’s accurate. Atwood did not explicitly treat the banality of evil, though. If the radicalism of the far-right that is dominating the republican party was called out more, I think they’d be bleeding voters. They already are, but there are still a lot of people who, if things like the DeSantis laws were properly explained in their effects, would quit the party. Their safety from being the targets of the laws leave them open to only evaluating republican messaging, and even news reporting often holds to the “two sides to the question” framing.
There’s the old joke about the weather person announcing that some people are saying it’s raining and some are saying it’s not raining, and then conducting interviews. People who tend to stay inside are often willing to believe that it’s not raining, rather than sticking their heads outside, and that’s due in no small part to the press pretending both sides are the same.
I hear you, whole heartedly, and I wish I knew what more I could do (if anything) to help. It’s so discouraging to see how effective the propaganda has become. I’m so tired of waiting on those prone to fear based rhetoric to die off. We can’t effectively persuade so many people in a timely fashion.
I am with you I see no path that isn’t taking us straight into fascism at this time. And not only is Trump running for president he looks to win the nomination for the Republican party.
And the fact that they holding out on his trail until next FUCKING Year is terrifying and ridiculous.
First trail isn’t until March and the classified document trail isn’t until May. Giving him plenty of time to gain popularity and frankly destroy America.
He should be on trail NOW and no time to campaign. Hell he shouldn’t even be allowed to run.
But I have no way or idea how to fix this with voting.
Friend, I don’t have the answers, but just want to remind you that you aren’t alone. And I won’t ever stop fighting, I don’t have it in me to give up.
And real progress to actually helping Americans goes by the wayside until we undo all this mess (please vote in 2024 so we can start that).
And before the Republican party shifted to the right, while the Democratic party shifted left, it was the Democrats who were the racist ones.
It’s not the GOP that’s the problem, it’s right wing conservatism.
Yeah, and in today’s America right wing conservatism is almost entirely concentrated in the GOP. Not really sure what the history of the party flip (which happened
over half a centurythe better part of a century ago) has to do with anything in the screenshot?EDIT: Thanks u/fkn for the correction!
Half a century is nothing when 45% of the people who vote are over 50.
Fwiw, the switch happened more like 70 years ago though.
Good point, will edit my original comment.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to be confrontational. Of course right wing conservatism and the GOP go hand in hand today, to the point that many people don’t even differentiate between them.
The text of the post reads kind of like the GOP is the problem, as opposed to being where you can find the problem so very readily. I wanted to point out that we should be looking out for the bad political philosophy that the Republican party embraces even when it’s outside the Republican party. Even where it’s found inside the Democratic party. And I used the example of the party flip to illustrate that.
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The ONLY thing the GOP cares about is power and protecting the money of the obscenely wealthy. Everything else is a side show.
Hmm, I thought we had a two party system, surely with such blatant things like this happening the other party passed a bunch of laws and federal guidelines making these kinds of things illegal?
I wonder, what was happening when the other team has a congressional majority in both federal houses plus the president? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/deportations-customs-remove-record-number_n_1018002 Oh.
