We are in a global pandemic, we face climate catastrophe, wealth disparity is at levels unseen since the great depression, cops kill 3 people daily, & the top Republican priorities are bullying trans teenagers, demolishing democracy, and making it easier for Nazis to kill people.
It is impossible to compromise with Republicans.
Impossible, not because we hate compromise, but because compromise presupposes a second party that is participating in the same reality and in the same organization.
Republicans are, quite simply, not participating in America.
They are participating in a much different America, one that is gone, one that would turn millions back into disenfranchised property.
We mustn't participate with anybody who is participating in such an America.
It is impossible to compromise with Republicans.
We have to recognize fascism for what it is. We have to believe they intend to do what they say they will.
Republicanism is a movement guided by a spirit of greed and every bigotry.
Any compromise with it is just giving them leverage they will take, without giving anything.
Saw a clip of Trump blathering to strangers at his gross resort for rich Christian fascists, and it really brought home what hostages we all were to the mundane grotesque whims of this dull-minded pathetic bully.
Conservatives need to understand that on top of everything else Trump manifestly is—fascist, racist, sexist, ignorant, cruel, foolish, crude, narcissistic, evil, greedy, genocidal—he is also deeply, deeply, pathetic.
And you all voted for him. Your gross pig king. We see you.
I don't forgive people for voting for Trump and I probably never will. There's no excuse for it. I don't seek common ground, I don't seek understanding, I don't like them and I don't want to be liked by them. I think they're garbage and I think deep down they know it.
I would say that the government that imposed a Muslim travel ban, a family separation policy, sweeping deregulation of environmental protection, multiple trillion dollar giveaways to billionaires and deliberately spread misinformation about a pandemic, was also “big government.”
They want to be the persecuted ones? Let’s show them what that is.
Every law they’ve passed against others for decades, let’s pass against them for a few decades.
No fly lists. Travel bans. Bathroom laws. Gerrymanders. Criminalize McMansions.
Oh—let’s take their burgers, too.
Yes, for their own good. Republicans need to understand that we don’t hate *them*, in fact we *love* them as god commands us! We just hate their sinful Republican lifestyle.
The problem with saying that I’m employing a strawman is, I’m repeating things that are being said by such fringe conservatives as, hmm, let’s see, their last president, their current congresspeople, their highest rated propagandists, and the majority of their voters who listen.