stuporman wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:stuporman wrote:This is what Trump and the rest of Republicans have been turning the GOP into, a party of Nazi type violent rhetoric that is anything but American while simultaneously wrapping themselves in the flag.
This isn't an outlier, there has been countless examples of this from all sort of authorities and elected officials which leave one to wonder if the 'leaders' are like this how much worse is it in the unseen rest.
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/nov/08/police-chief-resigns-in-marshall/
Police chief resigns in Marshall; posts urging election-related violence drew scrutinySpoiler:
Most of us have violent thoughts of our own at times, but we don't advocate for it out of principle even if there some people we loathe. I would much rather see Trump suffer in prison than die anyway.
Trumpism normalized deranged people advocating for violence against their opponents.
Society needs to de-normalize this behavior. Anyone in a position to protect and serve needs to be removed upon discovery of any such online incitements to commit violence.
Trumpism definitely turned up the volume on it so it's more heard currently but this isn't a new sentiment and wasn't the first time the volume was up this high. The religious conservative right hates the left, demonizes everyone that isn't them and seeks to eradicate them from existence or at least out of 'their country'. I'm concerned this type of behavior will become a norm from them again because it isn't too far removed from a time that it had been.
Their intolerance to ideas, beliefs and diversity that isn't their own and vitriolic way they treat others is dangerous. It's not as innocuous as just some violent thoughts we may have springing from our monkey mind from time to time. Their intention to behave this way towards others is embedded in their ideology, their belief system and makes it's virtually impossible to coexist in peace with them because they won't allow it.
The amount of support that remained for Trump is concerning.
I'd draw a parallel with you if I may. You're not highly tolerant of centrism in the Democratic Party, but since I assume you also recognize the dangers of Trumpism you accept why there is a need to vote for a Democrat you may not really be enthused about.
On the flip side there is the other form of tolerance where you have people who are not white supremacists who have a tolerance for everything that is bad in the GOP because they are either lifelong Republican voters or because they back one or more issues they support.
For me, personally, that's the fault line in American society now. There's a vast difference between navigating the corporatist elements within a party to achieve your objectives and accepting fascism and white nationalism.
And I don't know how to deal with it. I related how one of my exes sounds like a Republican now with the same song and dance about how the GOP doesn't represent evil and people who vote for them are not bad. When I said that's how Nazism gains a foothold, by turning a blind eye there is no response simply because for a lot of Americans it never goes that deep. They simply do not care about politics fundamentally, so they're willing to go along with just about anything.
My personal solution is to settle in another country most likely. I don't see this level of blind acceptance of authoritarianism and racism ending anytime soon.
The only solution now politically is to keep winning until you can restack the courts, rewrite the books, change the rules and shift the demographic. I won't go blue in the face any longer trying to argue why that means leftists need to keep working with the Democratic Party, because if this near-death experience for our Democracy wasn't enough to convince people of this necessity I don't have the energy anymore to convince them.
