The warning bell keeps clanging.

Mike Waghorne

@wdlindsy It would tell the world that the USA is now officially a fascist nation. No surprise there.

Green Roc Thoughts

@wdlindsy Trump scares me.

Hitler led people to allow and perform the murder of millions.

Trump in charge with his plans, would leave me to die, homeless and starving to death.

William Lindsey :toad:

@GreenRoc I think we have every right to be scared.

William Lindsey :toad:

@mikewaghorne I don't hear anyone who is issuing these warnings expressing surprise that fascist strands are woven into the culture of the US — as they are woven into the culture of many nations around the world, something we're having to face all over again as fascism emerges in one culture after another. People commenting from afar who imagine many Americans are naive about this aspect of our history and culture aren't listening carefully to many of us — who deserve support.

William Lindsey :toad:

@mikewaghorne Yes.

William Lindsey :toad:

@philip_cardella Yes, that's right. Trump didn't emerge suddenly and out of the blue, like Athena springing from the head of Zeus. A whole lot of Republicans for years now have set the stage for this emergence.

The problem is hardly Trump alone. It's many of us, the shocking percentage of us who now cheer when told he'll round up and deport millons of immigrants.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wood5y Thank you for pointing me to his site. I will read with interest.

William Lindsey :toad:

@philip_cardella Yes, I agree — see my response to your other good comment about this today.

dark was the night 🌚

@wdlindsy Even if orange maga gramps loses, the millions who are completely ok with #fascism will still be our neighbors. And they will be further enraged and ready for the next, more capable and more focused, white supremacist politician.

this is the cause of my ongoing anxiety.

#uspol

William Lindsey :toad:

@philip_cardella Yes, growing up in the US South, I often heard disparaging comments from fellow white Southerners who, unlike my family, were not fiercely devoted to FDR. For many of my compatriots, the story of FDR was like a reverse image of the one I heard in my family circle growing up: he sold us out. He was a traitor to his race. His wife was a lesbian communist. And on and on. The determination to turn back the New Deal has long legs.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wood5y I hope so, too.

Piousunyn

@wdlindsy @philip_cardella Yes, they the elite have been chipping away at FDR's New Deal since day one. Ronald Reagan gutted the Fairness Doctrine or it may have become law. Law, which the GOP hates, unless it supports their biases.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Piousunyn @philip_cardella So it has long seemed to me….

William Lindsey :toad:

@djnst I share your anxiety about that reality, which I see, too.

Adrian Legg

@wdlindsy Y'already did the genocide.

Trez13

@wdlindsy I believe part of the problem is that these people (MAGA voters) do not understand what the word "fascism" means. And they most definitely do not make the effort to think about how their lives will be impacted by a dictatorship. They think it only affects the brown people. Niemoller, anyone?

William Lindsey :toad:

"the reality is Trump could be a wannabe fascist all day. But without followers, he is just a guy screaming out anti-American garbage.

That is why to me it’s far more alarming that millions of Americans see Trump for who he is and love it. They want 'America’s Hitler'—as JD Vance warned in 2016 Trump could become. MAGA is what a modern day fascist movement looks like."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
/17

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/vp-harris-is-100-correct-that-trump

Holger Fiallo

@wdlindsy Those who keep saying undecided need a brain exam. They will vote for Trump and what others say about him does not make a difference. KH = America. Trump = Hate. He was right when he said that he could kill someone and people will still vote for him..

Green Roc Thoughts

@wdlindsy I had thought people were being compliant and following the leader like so many people are conditioned to do...
Are we dealing with obedient sheep or are people actually wanting to exterminate people they dont like.

Scary thoughts.

William Lindsey :toad:

"We have been studying democratic crisis and authoritarianism for 30 years. Between the two of us, we have written five books on those subjects. We can think of few major national candidates for office in any democracy since World War II who have been this openly authoritarian….

The U.S. establishment is sleepwalking toward a crisis."

~ Steven Levitskiy and Daniel Ziblatt

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
/18

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/opinion/democracy-defense-us-authoritarian.html