100% correct. It's time for Democrats to stop treating Republicans as colleagues and start treating them as what they've proven to be—and enforcing it.
I want to see enduring and open hostility from the Democratic caucus toward the Republican caucus. I want them all shut out and sidelined and entirely disregarded.
Until this happens I won't feel we are moving from danger to safety.
I want to see Biden's justice department vigorously pursuing/dismantling white supremacist terror cells, both within police departments and without. I want the military purged of white supremacists and sympathizers.
Until this happens we aren't moving from danger to safety.
Put bipartisanship in a box. Sink the box in the ocean.
We don't have time to waste pretending it's possible to unify with fascists who want to see us dead.
If opposing fascism is extreme, then we should not fear being thought extreme.
This isn't about revenge, it's about reality. It's actually looking the danger in the face, naming it, and then meeting the challenge.
What happened last Wednesday actually happened.
What's been happening all year has actually been happening.
We have to oppose it.
The White House in coordination with at least some members of military and law enforcement, directed a mob full of Nazis to the Capitol Building to kill the VP and Congress in order to overthrow the government.
And the Republican caucus enabled it.
That's real. Face it.
Trump—with the almost total cooperation of Republicans at every level of government and social life—has engaged in a year-long campaign to not only allow unchecked spread but to encourage it, resulting in over 400k dead people, disproportionately of color.
That's real. Face it.
Put bipartisanship in a box. Sink the box in the ocean.
We don't have time to waste pretending it's possible to unify with fascists who want to see us dead.
This isn't about hating unity, it's about recognizing when unity has become incompatible with survival.
Survival is our mission. Those who belong to the vicious fascist cult known as Republicanism can join us by joining us.
As long as they oppose survival, we must oppose them.
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If platforming Nazis and white supremacists were distasteful but ultimately necessary aspects of an open equatable civil society, I sort of feel like we’d have an open equitable civil society now instead of being on the brink of a far-right fascist white nationalist uprising.
Maybe it’s OK to make saying and doing Nazi shit illegal, idk.
If I say and do Nazi shit I think Big Tech should cut me off.
American conservatism intended to demolish democracy rather than share it with non-whites, gays, Muslims, and others, no matter who won the election. There’s no denying it anymore.
“Not all conservatives” ok if you must but 77.4 million of them. Nothing that’s happened should be a surprise; it was spoken of openly by him. It certainly hasn’t surprised me. 77.4 million. And they were *eager*.
If non-toxic conservatism can be thought to exist within a society optimized for empowered abuse (what would you conserve?), then it should want the Republican Party destroyed as a first order of business. As long as you belong, you're tainted.
"I want to work with the more sane elements of the Nazi Party and find compromises that help them rehabilitate the party. We should try to encourage the Nazis closer to the center to work with us on our shared values for real solutions for everyone"
Is how it sounds these days.
They just tried to murder Congress. Not a fringe element. Not a handful of protestors. A gang of fascists directed by the President in an attempt to overturn a democratic election that overcame their systemic disenfranchisement, abetted by over 100 representatives and Senators.
The Republican Party is a party so opposed to Black people voting that it dedicated itself to the overthrow of the U.S. government.
That's how it should be talked about, and that's how it should be treated, in public opinion, and under the law.
Rep Peter Meijer is my rep. He is in a party where his colleagues perform fascist acts of propaganda for profit or because they fear violent retribution from their fascist constituents, and he knows this, and he nevertheless stays in his fascist party. So much for him.
The incentive for leaving a fascist party is no longer belonging to a fascist party. It’s not our job to provide additional enticement. It’s our job to oppose.
If not accepting fascism is extreme, let us be extreme.
Let’s stop and list all the incredible accomplishments of our favorite heroes through history who worked to fight for change from the inside as loyal members of a fascist party.