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

submitted 11 months ago by PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com to c/politics@lemmy.world

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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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[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I love how it's the dem's responsibility to keep conservatives from destroying the country - oh wait, no, it's been that way since bush ran the economy into the shitter, er, no, not that bush, the other bush & reagan. Somehow conservatives always present some kind of existential threat to the democracy that's the left's job to fix again and again.

[-] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

It looks the same from the other side.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

did Clinton drive the economy into the shitter? Or Obama?

Pray tell how the country's been left in crisis by dems. Did Carter wreck the economy just before Reagan took office?

explain.

[-] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not saying the other side's perspective is at all based on reality...it just looks the same, purely appearances because they're...born vaginally.

[-] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 months ago

I don't know who newrepublic.com is, and I'm no fan of Israel and its homicidal reactionism right now, but if you think that there's any chance at all that this is going to make me vote for a goddamn insurrectionist sociopath over the guy I occasionally have policy disagreements with, you are an absolute waste of oxygen.

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[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The electoral system in the US has been going increasingly downhill. It's sad that it also affects the rest of the world as well.

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