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10 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
As the wealthy and powerful continue to undermine government and profit off inequality, their only plans for the future and our crises are utopian promises that bypass people altogether and erase the gains of liberal democracy.

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We have to recognize that developing technologies, rampant consumerism, and the rise of misinformation for profit are leading to a future where human rights and democracy might be done away with.

This is a massive, massive threat, and we have to fight against it.
Increasingly, corporations and Big Tech look at the threats of rising fascism and collapsing societies as only being solvable by moving beyond politics, voting, representative government, and bypassing humanity altogether.

It’s oppressive utopian thinking.
And what’s more, this anti-human, corporate Utopianism is grounded in colonizing philosophy that legitimized slavery and the oppression and exploitation of people around the world. It is expressly elitist, racist, and as destructive as it gets.

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11 Mar
You can’t organize Republican beliefs logically because they are inherently illogical. This isn’t an ideology, it’s a reactionary, panicked defense of white patriarchal supremacy and entrenched power. It is whatever the moment needs it to be and will find any possible outlet.
The old mythologies of exceptionalism, meritocracy, and nationalism are failing, leaving Republicans to embody a teeth-gnashing denial of that fact coupled with whatever cultural or political cudgel might help. They’re A-B testing cudgels every single day in desperation.
Again, there is no Republican plan fir the future beyond a desperate push to force us backward. None of this is logical or consistent, it’s trying to find a means to get back to segregation and protected capital and however it gets there will do.
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10 Mar
The Republican Party isn’t concerned with earning votes, broadening its appeal, passing legislation to help people, and they’re not worried about how increasingly revolting they are to Americans.

They’re focused on eliminating the vote of the people who reject them.
It doesn’t matter that the Relief Bill is overwhelmingly, jaw-droppingly popular, or that the Republican base is dwindling as they refuse to govern in favor of attention stunts designed to produce cringey faux-outrage.

The point is to produce a radicalized minority ruling class.
People still want to treat the GOP like it’s a party. It’s not. It’s a fascistic, antidemocratic movement that serves as the public face and sabotaging body of the white, wealthy, and powerful who want to dismantle government and roll back rights.

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8 Mar
We need to talk about how the British Monarchy is a living, breathing monument to white supremacy and how the Right there and in America use mythologies of exceptionalism to hide their blatant, murderous oppression.

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The British and American empires were constructed on slave labor and the militarized exploitation and destruction of the cultures of people of color. The violent reaction to this unassailable fact being pointed out only proves how brittle the lie really is.
Jokes like Ben Shapiro are already using the Allies fighting the Nazis as cover for the fact America and Britain both contributed to fascist and Nazi philosophy and the logistics of their genocidal project. It’s a fairytale that hides a bloody history of oppression.
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8 Mar
An example of conventional and damaging historical narratives is the lie that the Red Scare was about fear of communism and not a concentrated effort to oppress African Americans, women, LGTBQ, labor unions, socialists, and dismantle the New Deal/social safety net.
The Red Scare wasn’t just a phenomenon, it was a strategy used by Republicans and the wealthy to oppress vulnerable populations, attack the New Deal, destroy organized labor, and marshal white, patriarchal supremacy for the purposes of consolidating power.
Pretending like this wasn’t the case, like America just suddenly and spontaneously got very scared of Russia, not only obfuscates an intentional strategy that hurt the country and its people, but keeps us from understanding how those sane strategies are STILL HAPPENING TODAY.
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8 Mar
Let’s be clear. Poisonous, white supremacist, paranoid conspiracy theories aren’t a new thing for the GOP.

This is the party of the Red Scare, the John Birch Society, the New World Order, and climate denial. All used to help curb reform and benefit the wealthy and powerful.
No one’s going to “discover” their conscience. It’s a matter of calculating whether conspiracy theories that destroy society hurt or help their chances of holding onto or consolidating power.

It’s who the Republicans are.
This current cesspool of Right Wing conspiracy culture didn’t just pop out of nowhere. It’s the logical evolution of a long, long heritage of weaponized conspiracies meant to destroy the social safety net, defeat reform, and redirect anger toward vulnerable populations.
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6 Mar
Republicans hijacking an attempt to help Americans who are starving or seconds away from being thrown in the streets to harass, demonize, and needlessly attack trans people is just a perfect encapsulation of this dreary, awful moment.
Again. There is no Republican Party. It is not a political party with a coherent ideology or any plan or intention to make anything better for anyone besides the wealthiest white few. Everything else is theater, performative, strategic theater.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/there-is-no-…
The GOP has reached its ideological conclusion and only exists now as a festering fascistic movement that serves as the public face and organizer for the wealthy and powerful. There is no plan beyond dismantling government and targeting vulnerable populations.
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