The fascist movement in this country currently controls the White House and the Senate and believes the government is so far beyond its control only violence and the destruction of democracy will fix it.
They’re losing both very soon. The violence will only get worse.
A lot of what we’re dealing with is perceived persecution, angry people who believe society has been wrested from them by conspiracies and nefarious crimes. These movements, as the move with New World Order/Patriot Movement from Bush to Clinton, thrive with “opposition” in charge
One of the hardest tricks for fascists has been to have Trump as president and still sell the idea they were fighting the government. To square that circle the Deep State and QAnon twisted logic into incredible knots.
Now they have a “stolen election” and an “illegitimate” POTUS
The point is this: even if we make it through the next week without another coup or attack, it’s frighteningly irresponsible to act like we dodged a bullet or that things are “normal.”
These next few weeks, months, and years are unimaginably dangerous and tenuous.
As long as this country continues to decline, as long as planned inequality and exploitation continues, as long as the wealthy and powerful are allowed to fund, train, support, and direct these fascists from the shadows in order to dismantle reform, this threat will grow.
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Keep telling yourself the coup attempt was just a rural uprising of the uneducated and gullible and stupid all you want, but that narrative massively and intentionally obscures the reality, as well as the actions of the wealthy and the GOP to create this situation.
The people at the Capitol weren’t uniformly poor or rural. There were wealthy there, politicians, white terrorists, a total and comprehensive swathe of the American Right. This situation isn’t as simplistic as people are trying to sell you.
The Right is a teetering pyramid, a movement of the wealthy and powerful focused on exploitation and power that uses white supremacist paranoia to construct a base of the very people they exploit. Any narrative otherwise just obscures and empowers this.
The wealthy and powerful spent decades creating a hateful, paranoid environment where conspiracy theories enabled the dismantling of government as a public good, culminating in Trump and an outright fascist movement.
Now it’s time to pretend they’re horrified by their creation.
This crisis was facilitated by the wealthy elite who fought modest reform, regulation, and any attempt toward equality by disseminating white supremacist paranoia into the culture and undermining all efforts by linking them to fascist conspiracy theories of old.
The New World Order. Birtherism. The Deep State. QAnon. Just iterations of the Protocols of the Elders of Zions, the same story wielded as a weapon by the Right to demonize reform efforts by the Left in order to maintain power and profit and redirect resulting rage.
The capital of the United States of America has been turned into a military zone and there’s a massive fascist movement threatening shared society because the wealthy and powerful created an alternate reality where they could maintain power and direct anger away from themselves.
Really let that sink in, because that’s the truth.
Trump, the Right, their poisonous media ecosystem, these grifters and bad faith politicians.
All of it part of a toxic stew of designed, tested, and weaponized conspiracy theories to hide boundless greed and inhuman cruelty.
We have to hold Trump accountable and change material conditions in this country, but nothing will change if we don’t investigate white supremacy, the paranoia that accompanies it, and that wealthy and powerful people have constructed an alternate reality to keep a grip on power.
People are going to try their damnedest to tell a story that Trump was the cause of this crisis and a total aberration.
The truth is that America’s history is lousy with fascism, that the Right and the wealthy created an environment of fascistic lies to expedite profit and power
This symbolic outrage from a party who has gleefully used Trump to dismantle government, fundraise, and stock the courts right up until the last week of his term will help build that narrative.
This lie will only grow the very real danger we’re in.
We’re facing fascism because of our weaponized mythologies of American exceptionalism that spurred on oppressive empire and hid white supremacy, we’re here because of planned economic inequality and because fascism is a means of suppression of reform.
The people who ruined this country, who grew inequality, who destroyed government as a public good, who made our lives miserable, all for profit, hid their guilt by whipping up a fascist movement with weaponized, white supremacist conspiracy theories.
The wealthy and powerful plunder a country for everything it's worth, damn the people to lesser lives, and when it all starts to come apart, they rely on fascists to reinforce their will and attack reform movements.
We've seen it before. Here and abroad.
We can't keep pretending like this isn't what happened, that the wealthy and powerful aren't using fascists radicalized by their own weaponized misinformation, and that it just...appeared.
This is why we're here. This is what's happening. Address this.
The Right has no principles beyond pursuit of power and wealth.
They’re not pro-life, they’re not for free markets, they’re not fiscally or socially conservative, they’re not pro-troops, and after their people murdered cops we know they’re not actually pro-law enforcement.
We have passed the point where Republicans can engage in good faith, cooperative government. It’s a fascistic, anti-democratic movement that exists to protect white supremacy and the power of wealthy men and corporations by weaponizing poisonous conspiracy theories.
There is no uniting. There’s no reaching across the aisle. THERE IS NO AISLE. Those of us in the building are watching the Right break down the doors and burn the house down.
It’s not a political party. It’s an existential threat.