Kind of tangential, but it’s supremely ironic that the reason burgerland Amerikkka sees Trump as ultra competent businessman who’s always on the winning end of the deal is because NBC rehabilitated his image with The Apprentice.
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Im using these quotes to say yes, broadly liberals (democrats) have had a hand in the fascism of the US; of which has always been fascistic, but as the "left wing of fascism" has put on a smiling face to trick us.
As far as I'm concerned, "liberal" is the most meaningless word in the dictionary. History has shown me that as long as some white middle class people can live high on the hog, take vacations in Europe, send their children to private schools, and reap the benefits of their white skin privileges, then they are "liberals." But when times get hard and money gets tight, they pull of that liberal mask and you're talking to Adolf Hitler. They feel sorry for the so called under privileged just as long as they can maintain their own privileges
Assata Shakur, 1988 from Assata : An Autobiography
There's also that Malcom X quote about liberals being the "smiling foxes."
A quote about George Jackson's politics :
For Jackson, echoing the prison writings of the Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci (an author whose translated writings were found in Jackson’s cell after his death), fascism referred chiefly to state-led economic development and the incorporation of organized labor.
In other words, for Jackson, fascism involved not only racist repression but also national development and reform. In this sense, the U.S. of the 1960s-70s was fertile fascist soil indeed. Such an expansive understanding of political domination may complicate and enrich antifascist sentiments percolating today around the defense of existing, often hard-won political liberties. Jackson forces us to rethink the distinctions between conservative and liberal administrations and to confront the legacies of even the New Deal and Great Society within a longer history of capitalism and U.S. imperialism.
No but they should have played hardbal when they had the chance. They had the numbers; they could have passed laws to prevent a stanky ass old fascist from fucking this country up.
Knowing that senile old Nazi was getting the office back, I feel like the Dems had a DUTY to push thru as many guardrail laws as possible. Biden should have announced felons cannot run for president if they can't even vote.
Ofc we've seen what king shithead thinks about all these rules--- apparently they don't apply to him...
Biden should have announced felons cannot run for president if they can't even vote.
Nah, this ain't it.
You could've also said ”yes, Democrats are to blame” because that's what your post really amounted to.
Yes 100% specifically Obama for extra blame
They had to choose between Bernie and Trump, and they chose the latter.
Yes
Not only because funny But also because true
Ratchet Politics at work. This is the outcome.
So yes. They're just as much to blame. Perhaps moreso because their actions aren't driven by ineptitude or ignorance. They always knew how to win and they chose not to do so.