If you can’t beat 'em, rig the elections.
If that doesn’t work, throw 'em in jail.
Straight out of the autocrats’ playbook.
They already made “antifascism” illegal.
In the weeks following a series of Democratic primary victories by progressive and democratic socialist candidates in New York, Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas, and elsewhere, Trump and his allies in the GOP have relentlessly hammered on the idea that the nation was under siege by “godless Communists” who want to “completely destroy the traditional American way of life,” rhetoric that echoed McCarthy era red-baiting to many critics.
These “Godless Communists” who are looking to “destroy the traditional American way of life” are doing it by winning elections. So, what Trump and Johnson are saying is that we should send the military after these office holders because he doesn’t like their politics.
Yep. If you think shit is dark now, it’s gonna get way darker before it starts to get better. I’m the most worried I’ve ever been about the few months of October through January. They’ve come way too far and committed way too many crimes to simply let themselves be democratically and constitutionally removed from office.
Little Mikey Johnson has said he’s running a protection racket.
We might as well call them “Prideful Sadducees and Pharisees”
Bringing back the Red Scare to make America Great Again?
Fuck.
The red scare has been their playbook for a long time.
It’s been the red scare ever since the reactionaries stopped New Deal progressivism in the 1950s. If that didn’t happened, we would’ve kept pace with the rest of the world.
Yeah, for SOME reason, communism is becoming incredibly popular in the United States.
Could it be the fascists running everything?
Oh, I’m sorry, ruining everything.
Two things can be true!
Yeah, because the real threat today isn’t fascism having taken over government, or christian nationalism, or billionaires bleeding us dry and stripping our rights. Nope. It’s the red menace. All those communists who we all know in real life, who [checks notes]… oh wait… do not actually exist meaningfully in government.
Also, Bigfoot is coming for your children. Better watch out! 🙄
e: don’t get me wrong, I wish leftism was a real threat to fascism in the US, but it’s just not yet.
do not actually exist meaningfully in government.
Yeah, that’s what they want you to think!
It’s also true, but are you really gonna let facts get in the way?
/s
How about fighting fascism in the government instead?
Same thing. What they mean by “communism” and “socialism” is just “we need more money for fascism”. Plain and simple projection.
What about fighting fascism?
That’s considered “unAmerican” now.
I’ll take goodness communism over fascism wielding a cross and wearing a flag.
They’re talking about democratic socialism of course though, which is expressly not communism, but bring ignorant of the difference is also a feature of the American education system.
So when they say they want to go back to the 50s they mean everything, even the random Red Scare witch hunts.
Okay pedophile…
Threatening to use the military to attack American citizens? Seems like a good reason to say NO! to your request.
Yeah, I heard communism is spreading like wildfire. The Federal Government wants to take over elections, there are subsidized gas stations, the President is telling private companies that the federal government needs stakes in their companies, and the president has told groceries to lower their prices or else, secret police on the street shooting at people at traffic stops… Communism!
Or are we talking about the fake communism Republicans point to to scare constituents into voting Republican against their best interest?
Let me guess: the little Keebler Elf defines anything that is not conservative, not pro-pedo-in-chief, and not pro-Seven Mountain Mandate as “Communism”.
Did he inherit the Keebler Elf title from Jeff Sessions? Was there an interim Elf?
Is the communism in the room with us now Mike?
Communism…hmm right Looking at Russia: Things Like the existence of oligarchy, nepotism, plundering of the poor, being against free press, having police raids, …? Looking back at the US.
Russia post Soviet collapse is 100% what they are trying to achieve here. Balkanization, genocide, profiteering, and mask off oligarchy. Seems to be working.
