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Anti-authoritarian Left, pro- UNIVERSAL human rights (universal = everyone, everywhere— not just your in-groups.) Plutocracy prevents representative democracy.
Aug 20, 2022 11 tweets 7 min read
July '22:

"But at least since January 6th, some MAGA sectors have been dropping much of the pretense of religious freedom, while they appear to openly prepare their audiences for vigilante violence and religious war."

#21stCenturyFascism
#AmericanFascism
religiondispatches.org/when-religious… Aug 2022:

"Nothing in my background could have prepared me for the political atmosphere of extremism, militant Christian fundamentalism, intimidation tactics, and threatening behavior currently being employed in the community.”

-Library director in Idaho
krem.com/article/news/l…
Jul 27, 2022 16 tweets 7 min read
N. and S. America, Europe, Russia, Africa...

July 2022:

Why #ChristianNationalism is a global problem
abc.net.au/religion/chris… "Since its inception, the Lord’s Resistance Army has kidnapped more than 100,000 children. The objective of the group, as articulated by Kony, is an explicitly Christian nationalist one: for Uganda to be a country governed by the Ten Commandments."

abc.net.au/religion/chris…
Jul 2, 2022 10 tweets 5 min read
Feb. 2019:

"Shockingly, they completely ignore two of the most significant economic events: the market crashes of 1929 and 2008."

Plutocrats are controlling too much of our edu and media.

Koch Network Pushes Deceitful Textbook on Cash-Strapped Schools truthout.org/articles/koch-… Nov 2021:

"School officials specifically instructed [teachers] to avoid books by authors of color and women...for fear we may violate [HB 1775]...can possibly face formal admonishment or lose their Oklahoma teaching licenses if...found to be in violation"
aclu.org/news/free-spee…
Nov 8, 2021 10 tweets 5 min read
U.S. TV news and politics shows: 🙈🙉🙊

"To address the threats to social stability, the U.N. chief recommended a series of measures “to provide universal health coverage, education, housing, decent work and income protection for everyone, everywhere.”

apnews.com/article/techno… US TV news and politics shows: 🙈🙉🙊

“We find year after year that life satisfaction is reported to be happiest in the social democracies... People feel secure in those countries... gov is seen to be credible and honest and trust in each other is high.”
apnews.com/article/2021-w…
Apr 22, 2020 9 tweets 4 min read
Because it wasn't really an "attack". It was an *assist* by the right-wing of 1 country to the right-wing of another country — part of a global right-wing alliance that Putin's party and the GOP are just 2 members of.

They've all been helping each other for decades and decades. The fact that most Americans don't realize this is because U.S. establishment media is controlled by people who benefit from right-wing policies.

So it benefits them to keep us hating other countries without giving us enough info that would make us evaluate our own systems.
Jan 23, 2020 5 tweets 7 min read
@duchessofearl1 @JYSexton In an INTERNATIONAL STUDY, the GOP *platform* was found to be FUNDAMENTALLY neo-fascist.

Republican Party has evolved into an American version of Europe's neo-fascists.
👉🏼 dailykos.com/stories/2019/6… @duchessofearl1 @JYSexton Studies have demonstrated that the ONE characteristic that linked 2016 Trump voters across all *other* characteristics is that THEY ARE AUTHORITARIANS. 😖

Trump is a SYMPTOM of #AmericanFascism.

More Info ⤵️
theconversation.com/trumps-america…

and ⤵️
acpress.amherst.edu/books/riseoftr…
Jan 22, 2020 22 tweets 13 min read
Good morning! 🌄🌇🌅

The *illegitimate* Trump admin — which exists because an oligarch cheated to get elected — is an *illegitimate* neo-fascist regime building fascism.

Today's GOP is a neo-fascist party.

The USA is an OLIGARCHY.

Oligarchy and fascism are UNACCEPTABLE. Monday, @NPR *reporters* repeatedly called the fascist, terroristic rally in Virginia, "peaceful", and Wednesday morning, NPR *reporters* called perfectly legal behavior by refugees, "Illegal".

Do you understand what's happening?
Dec 8, 2019 5 tweets 4 min read
@Teri_Kanefield Today's Republicans like Putin and United Russia (Putin's party) because they're ideologically aligned on many issues.

They're NATURAL ALLIES.

From March 7, 2017:

Why Republicans like Putin  dallasnews.com/opinion/commen… @Teri_Kanefield 3 short articles that I found super helpful for understanding what's *actually* been going on with the GOP.

1)⤵️
damemagazine.com/2017/02/17/why…

2)⤵️
washingtonmonthly.com/2018/07/21/the…

3)⤵️
washingtonmonthly.com/2018/12/22/the…