This has long been the grift by which US electeds betray democracy and their constituents.
What's new is their openly fascistic unwillingness to even pretend to care, even as crises they have a hand in accelerate and compound, leaving vulnerable people to die.
What's new is their openly fascistic unwillingness to even pretend to care, even as crises they have a hand in accelerate and compound, leaving vulnerable people to die.
https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1362893103556820994
Fascism teaches that
1) those who survive are strong,
2) those that fail to thrive are weak, and
3) the dying of the "weak" and the thriving of the "strong" are simply the proper natural order.
1) those who survive are strong,
2) those that fail to thrive are weak, and
3) the dying of the "weak" and the thriving of the "strong" are simply the proper natural order.
Fascists stack fix the game in favor of themselves and the privileged categories they occupy, extracting wealth from those that are marginalized.
By the time crisis hits (and it always does, usually with fascist complicity), the deck is already doubly stacked.
By the time crisis hits (and it always does, usually with fascist complicity), the deck is already doubly stacked.
Cruz rarely bothers to pretend to camouflage his selfishness with feigned empathy, because he is at heart a fascist.
He believes he is naturally one of the strong, and that he deserves his success just as the "weak" deserve their suffering.
He believes he is naturally one of the strong, and that he deserves his success just as the "weak" deserve their suffering.
Trump really normalized that fascistically proud lack of empathy, and Cruz is a posterboy of that new normal for the post-Trump GOP.
He's not the vanguard, but he is absolutely a fascist.
He's not the vanguard, but he is absolutely a fascist.
The fact that this casual open fascistic behavior is the new normal should terrify us.
Not just because it signals that our electeds will jump ship the moment these crises hit home, but because officials feel comfortable publicly living that fascistic, casually eugenic doctrine.
Not just because it signals that our electeds will jump ship the moment these crises hit home, but because officials feel comfortable publicly living that fascistic, casually eugenic doctrine.
This is the behavioral equivalent of saying the quiet part loud.
There are fewer and fewer quiet parts.
That's a very, very bad thing.
There are fewer and fewer quiet parts.
That's a very, very bad thing.
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