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It Will Be an Election Unlike Any We’ve Lived Through. Are the Democrats Prepared? (newrepublic.com)

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The animating concept behind the Trump campaign will be chaos. This is what history shows us fascists do when given the chance to participate in democratic political campaigns: They create chaos. They do it because chaos works to their advantage. They revel in it, because they can see how profoundly chaos unnerves democratic-republicans—everyone, that is, whether liberal or conservative, who believes in the basic idea of a representative government that is built around neutral rules. Fascism exists to pulverize neutral rules.

So they campaign with explicit intention to instill a sense of chaos. And then comes the topper: They have the audacity to insist that the only solution to the chaos—that they themselves have either grossly exaggerated or in some cases created!—is to vote for them: “You see, there is nothing but chaos afoot, and only we can restore order!”

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[-] sgtgig@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Very sadly we just aren't in a climate for third party candidates to do anything. I would suggest getting involved with ranked choice voting advocacy groups if you really believe in it.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago

This is the perfect climate for it. Teach the Democrat voters that these Zionist Nazi foreign agents have no place in politics. Either they all join in third party voting or they'll keep losing to Republicans.

Trump winning again isn't going to change anything. The "he's a dictator and never going to step down" fear mongering from last time turned out to be complete BS.

Nothing will ever change if you guys keep acting like scared chickens refusing to vote for anything other than Democrats.

Democrats are the controlled opposition, nothing more.

[-] cheesebag@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

The "he's a dictator and never going to step down" fear mongering from last time turned out to be complete BS.

TRUMP LITERALLY TRIED TO VIOLENTLY OVERTHROW A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT, YOU UNEDUCATED POTATO.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

He walked a bunch of morons to the building. The government wasn't letting him take control.

Even if Jan 6 took over the entire building... It's a bunch of people inside the building.

The government wasn't listening to Trumps command to make him god emperor. 4 years passed and he gets kicked out.

[-] 31337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

I disagree. If Republicans take the presidency, the house, and the senate, I don't think voting will matter anymore. It's not so much, "Trump will be a dictator that never steps down," and more like further erosion of voting rights and democracy to the point that the Republican party will always control all branches of government. The large majority of states have red legislature or governors, and the Republicans are passing laws and trying to get court rulings that would keep them red no matter what (which would ensure control of the entire federal government). In reality, U.S. democracy is so weak now that only a few more laws and court rulings are needed to ensure Republican control of the federal government forever. They are doing it out in the open, "lawfully." As they say, "this is not a democracy, it's a republic!"

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