Here is the thing. Liberals are their own worst enemies, as they take the reactionaries at their word.
Reactionaries are hypocrites, they know it, they revel in it, they snicker ar naïve liberals who call them out on hypocricy. They know that Fox is lying to them https://www.salon.com/2023/02/21/fox-news-texts-reveal-the-truth-the-big-li…
When these fascist charge liberals and Dems with reprehensible moral crimes and behaviors, they are not only projecting themselves, and telegraphing who and what they are, the know that the naïve liberal is sucked into answering baseless charges and waste precious time in defense, while the fascists, are cooking up another baseless charge to keep the liberal on the back foot.
While most liberals care about what others think, of their public image the right wing, the reactionary, the fascist doesn’t, he or she is only concerned with what the rest of their pack thinks.
The liberal has a lot to learn. Taking the high road while they take the low road is suicide.
I’ve read some articles lately, mostly by “moderate” Republicans, they don’t like the word fascist, especially as applied to the right, they quibble about its meaning, deferring and referring to Mussolini’s fascism, but fascism is not a static animal, it grows, it evolves
The fascism of Franco and Hitler were not the fascism of Mussolini, though they did incorporate some of it’s precepts. In like manner the USSR was a fascist state, as is China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, N Korea and the list goes on. Fascism is authoritarian and anti democratic. It may have trappings of Democracy like a (meaningless) vote, but it is a political transvestite, like Giuliana and those cross dressing anti drag, anti LGBT politicians. They know they are hypocrites, their base knows it as well, but they don’t care so long as their agenda is advanced. When Trump said that he could shoot a person on 5th Ave and get away with it, he revealed that he knew well the DNA that constitutes at least 30% of America, and if truth be know more than 30% depending on which button is pushed.
Of course these reactionaries will be the dog that caught the car, but by the time they realize and regret it, it will be too late. This is the fate of people who were nurtured on faith and belief, and thus lack the skills of critical thinking. I would like to lay all the blame on the pulpit and press, but sadly our educational system bears a large part of the responsibility.
I recall, vividly, my own experience in school in the 1950's, boring, repetition, presented by flaccid, unenthusiastic and authoritarian figures misnamed teachers. I opted to be an autodidact and skipped school to get my education in a public library. Served me well enough to graduate from university with a 3.74 GPA and my Masters with a 3.47 GPA.
Now the fascists are burning books again, DeSantis is Hitler redux, and even potential autodidacts are losing the opportunity for self education. The first step to a controlled populace, so much for the farce of the Freedom Caucus.
Here is the thing. Liberals are their own worst enemies, as they take the reactionaries at their word.
Reactionaries are hypocrites, they know it, they revel in it, they snicker ar naïve liberals who call them out on hypocricy. They know that Fox is lying to them https://www.salon.com/2023/02/21/fox-news-texts-reveal-the-truth-the-big-lie-was-a-con--that-the-viewers-were-in-on/?lh_aid=3594739&lh_cid=g4f7e10512&lh_em=myocicats@gmail.com&di=6ddc06020c947edee2941da6556ebffc abd they don’t care. They know that Trump is a liar, a grafter, a prevent, an adulterer, a child molester, who is picking their pockets and they don’t care. He is their avatar, They see him in the mirror looking back at themselves.
When these fascist charge liberals and Dems with reprehensible moral crimes and behaviors, they are not only projecting themselves, and telegraphing who and what they are, the know that the naïve liberal is sucked into answering baseless charges and waste precious time in defense, while the fascists, are cooking up another baseless charge to keep the liberal on the back foot.
While most liberals care about what others think, of their public image the right wing, the reactionary, the fascist doesn’t, he or she is only concerned with what the rest of their pack thinks.
The liberal has a lot to learn. Taking the high road while they take the low road is suicide.
I’ve read some articles lately, mostly by “moderate” Republicans, they don’t like the word fascist, especially as applied to the right, they quibble about its meaning, deferring and referring to Mussolini’s fascism, but fascism is not a static animal, it grows, it evolves
The fascism of Franco and Hitler were not the fascism of Mussolini, though they did incorporate some of it’s precepts. In like manner the USSR was a fascist state, as is China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, N Korea and the list goes on. Fascism is authoritarian and anti democratic. It may have trappings of Democracy like a (meaningless) vote, but it is a political transvestite, like Giuliana and those cross dressing anti drag, anti LGBT politicians. They know they are hypocrites, their base knows it as well, but they don’t care so long as their agenda is advanced. When Trump said that he could shoot a person on 5th Ave and get away with it, he revealed that he knew well the DNA that constitutes at least 30% of America, and if truth be know more than 30% depending on which button is pushed.
Of course these reactionaries will be the dog that caught the car, but by the time they realize and regret it, it will be too late. This is the fate of people who were nurtured on faith and belief, and thus lack the skills of critical thinking. I would like to lay all the blame on the pulpit and press, but sadly our educational system bears a large part of the responsibility.
I recall, vividly, my own experience in school in the 1950's, boring, repetition, presented by flaccid, unenthusiastic and authoritarian figures misnamed teachers. I opted to be an autodidact and skipped school to get my education in a public library. Served me well enough to graduate from university with a 3.74 GPA and my Masters with a 3.47 GPA.
Now the fascists are burning books again, DeSantis is Hitler redux, and even potential autodidacts are losing the opportunity for self education. The first step to a controlled populace, so much for the farce of the Freedom Caucus.