USA Politics

sTrOnGeSt dEmOcRaCy

Trump is continually committing crimes including unconstitutional acts. The US is quite literally descending into fascism. And it is also on its way to becoming a banana republic.

You'd have to be willfully ignorant and obtuse to think Trump has any desire to shape the US according to some alleged image. The man has only ever cared about his money, that's it.
 
Willful ignorance plays an important part in this, as does main character syndrome. The "nothing's going to happen to me" mindset. There were Jews who voted for the Nazis because they thought the German society was too civilised to deny their integration and contribution.

Also note how one of 5's favourite phrases is "we're not there yet", as if the outcome is inevitable but at the same time we shouldn't point it out because that's being soooo dramatic.
 
Perun said:
I read an interesting quote the other day: The road to Fascism is paved by people saying "Stop exaggerating".
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Yes but what are the options here except raise awareness before midterms?
Press is still free in the US they could go full on against him but they aren’t.
Are you happy with how US press & Democrats handle Trump’s first 100 days?
 
Perun said:
Also note how one of 5's favourite phrases is "we're not there yet", as if the outcome is inevitable but at the same time we shouldn't point it out because that's being soooo dramatic.
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That's something that I see pretty often, online in particular. This mindset that whenever Trump does something unprecedented that it somehow isn't that bad (yet) and that anyone who cries foul is overreacting. For people love Trump for "saying it like it is", but at the same time it's always "just a joke, he wasn't serious". Yet now we are starting to feel the very serious effects of his actions.
These types of people are enabling the descent to fascism. They seem to think that it's only fascism once millions of some non-white minority have been exterminated, ignoring the long steps required to reach such a point (and we're right on track, repeating mistakes we thought we learned from last century).
 
____no5 said:
Yes but what are the options here except raise awareness before midterms?
Press is still free in the US they could go full on against him but they aren’t.
Are you happy with how US press & Democrats handle Trump’s first 100 days?
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They aren't free in practice anymore. He has subjugated them through intimidation, through denying them access to the WH, W Post editorial has been banned of being critical by Bezos, You should know that. He has threatened to revoke broadcast rights through EO's
 
____no5 said:
That’s too bad. I knew about Bezos, but I was’t aware of that. I just checked now. FCC stood their ground.
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And if he had issued an EO they would have complied. And if not, he would fire its head. He operates through threats, and it is clear it has worked. Most are at least partially muzzled.
 
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