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5 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Fascism is the mechanism that kicks in when capitalism reaches a point of intolerable inequality and cruelty. It uses our conspiracy theories and worst prejudices to legitimize the violence and intimidation necessary to keep the system functioning.

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What we’re seeing with the GOP and conspiracy theories like the Deep State and QAnon is a radicalization of a base in order to ensure they continue living in an oppressive system. It gifts economic struggles a religious mythology and frames everything as an apocalyptic war.
We’re currently at a crossroads where this inequality and exploitation is intolerable and endangered by changing ideas. The wealthy are already embracing fascistic methods to maintain control and will, history tells us, throw in with fascist thugs to protect their power.
Democracy and civil society are threatened now because they’ve lent themselves to challenging aristocratic, white patriarchal supremacist domination. Those with the power are already working with fascists and it’s only going to increase as we demand basic human dignity.
Make no mistake, MAGA and QAnon and rising authoritarian groups are part of a growing cult movement that will sanctify white supremacy as a religion in need of violent protection through oppression and intimidation. That’s where this is headed and has been heading all along.

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7 Nov
Just a reminder that, for as long as there has been law enforcement and Right Wing paramilitary groups, they have both shared members and cooperated.

What we’re seeing right now is a building, antidemocratic movement with one shared goal: maintaining white patriarchal power.
Here’s a deep dive into the history. Law enforcement and Right Wing paramilitary groups are linked by a worldview that considers common people an existential threat.

Both legitimize violence through a conspiratorial mindset that oppression is necessary.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-natural-al…
Our law enforcement and military are filthy with white supremacist paramilitary members, and it’s because of the mindset that they are at war with the people in defense of a political and economic system tuned to the wishes of the white, wealthy, and powerful.
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6 Nov
Notice all the articles and segments and speeches about “wokeness,” “CRT,” about how marginalized people hurt electoral chances.

The political, pundit, and media class only care about the economy and their own power and wealth. Everyone and everything else is dispensable.
The people who direct the discourse in America give themselves away by torpedoing any discussion about reform or progress or equality by positioning them as impediments to profit. This has always been the case. See it and you can’t unsee it.
The underlying message to these articles is that, sure, the GOP is a dangerous white supremacist movement, but Democrats need to appeal to the white supremacy and actively silence any voices calling for real, tangible reform that would make lives better.
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5 Nov
When capitalism starts to buckle and the people demand dignity and equality, liberalism’s soft pressures and meritocratic promises give way to fascism, which reinforces the economy through violence and offers meaning through war.
The market disguises patriarchal, white supremacist hierarchies, blaming human suffering on forces “beyond the benefactors’ control.”

When that fiction wears thin, fascism celebrates those ideas as natural and supernatural, the bedrock of society, and protects them as sacred.
Fascism rises from the stumbling of capitalist systems, replacing the internal, quiet systems with bombastic violence and attacking reformers as traitors and conspirators until the society is brought under widespread, self-destructive control.
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4 Nov
The problem is our economy and political system was handed over to corporations and the wealthy, resulting in stagnating wages, gridlocked government by design, and now, as the system buckles, they’re using authoritarianism and conspiracy theories to maintain control.
All of these “outrages” and conspiracy theories are just a means of transferring blame for economic exploitation to vulnerable populations so that the exploitation can continue and increase. It’s the hiding of a crime, and until we start treating it as such it’ll keep working.
“CRT outrage” is about hiding actual history and taking control of culture so that it’ll become an indoctrination cycle. Deep State/QAnon nonsense is about explaining globalism and de-industrialization through supernatural means.

These are cycles we’ve seen over and over.
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3 Nov
After the loss in Virginia we have to talk about how the "CRT panic" is a fascistic, white supremacist conspiracy theory weaponized by an authoritarian movement.

The Democratic Party needs to get serious about this RIGHT NOW. There's no time to spare

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Coverage today of the VA results is a predictable fingerpointing contest, but what's getting lost is that the Democrats are losing the battle over reality and this "CRT" conspiracy theory is proving incredibly dangerous and useful.

It's time to recognize the threat.

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To be clear, the "CRT" issue isn't about Critical Race Theory. It's about ensuring that actual history and information are censored.

The GOP knows if people understand real history they can't win elections. Instead, an alternate, weaponized reality needs constructed.

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3 Nov
Here’s the truth: decades of fretting over nonexistent voters, pandering to people who will never vote for you, and creating a platform cobbled together by overpaid pollsters and strategists with no actual skin in the game is a losing strategy.

Pick a direction. Be bold. Go.
Actually talk about how the GOP has become a dangerous authoritarian movement instead of ignoring it and ceding the discourse to them. Offer actual solutions that are easily digestible. Quit peddling transparently false American Exceptionalism. We know it’s nonsense.
What we watched last night has been playing out predictably for decades now. The Democratic Party continually recycles the same strategies and strategists and candidates and then blames the left or people of color for scaring away voters who’d never vote for them.

Change.
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