This. One million percent this. Trump is a fascist. Le Pen is a fascist. Frottage is a fascist and although I know Frottage was not the entire Brexit “movement,” the so-called reasonable Brexiters won by doing their best Frottage impression. These are basic facts.
These politicians, these ‘’movements,” they are all fascist. Frottage and Le Pen are different to Trump in the sense they tried to hide their true colours; with Le Pen it was an incredibly disciplined detoxification campaign, with Frottage it was the normalisation of fascism through the politics of personality. Again, I think these are very basic facts.
Trump was different. From the word go, he displayed his fascism to the world. He owned it. He was proud of it. Of course he would deny it, then double down on it in the next sentence. Donald Trump told the world in very simple terms who he was and what he stood for. If you supported Trump then you were either too stupid to know what fascism is or you simply didn’t care.
There’s a whole load of bollocks being talked about Trump voters, and about people who support these other fascist scumbags. They’re misunderstood. They’re disadvantaged. They’ll be alienated if we dismiss them as straight up c*nts. You know what? I couldn’t disagree more. The stupid ones don’t know the meaning of the word “alienated” and the ones that actually are switched on deserve as much respect as the evil bastards they prop up by voting for them and their ideas.
Fascism was not defeated by “understanding” it. Fascism was not defeated by trying to find common ground. Fascism was defeated by stamping on its evil, murderous throat again and again until it could no longer cough up its own bile. To not do the same again now is to open the door to the jackboots. To the politics of true evil.
These c*nts have no interest in “understanding” us. We should make no attempt to “understand” them because history has already taught us everything we need to know. We know where this road leads, we know where it ends. People supporting this evil should not get away with it. If they do not change course, history will remember them as nothing more than vermin, and that’s all they deserve.
Unless of course they win. Which I think right now is likely.
Edit: in relation to ny comment about “stamping on the throat” of fascism, I obviously refer not just to the war against Nazism and the twisted branches that leer out from that most poisonous of trees but to political correctness. Political correctness has had its faults and I’ve said as much on these pages more times than I care to remember but ultimately, all PC is is an attempt to find an inclusive discourse which makes as many people as possible feel comfortable. Ten years ago, when “PC gone mad” was the buzzphrase, there was national outrage over Nick Griffin having a slot on Question Time. Now, Frottage is hosting Steve Bannon on national radio in the name of “debate.” We are not at the beginning of the descent to fascism, here. We are a long way down the road. It has happened in the blink of an eye and that is why we can’t waste time debating these bastards.
Disagree with this. Not your assessments of what a trump vote meant and means, but that you can't let people back from this. They're real people; are you going to get them all together and push them off a cliff, or retain the services of a magician to magic them all far far away where they can have their circle jerk of ignorance without ruining our good time? Civil war is not an attractive option, is the understatement of any year. What other options do you have?
Coming from personal experience and reading....Wikipedia....conflict resolution isn't about jamming up the people who hold an opposing viewpoint and offering them no way out. You have to keep talking. Although 99.9% of me agrees with you, that a trump voter is irredeemable, so there's not much heat in my argument eh.
I'll admit to feeling very scared that liberty and freedom and equality for all really are just empty words, that the country I was raised thinking was infallible and blessed by God (greatttttttt system gang, nothing could go wrong then) is irrevocably damaged.
Using the analogy of America as a record spinning....When Donald's music ends, and maybe the corporatic GOP's as well, will it be with a record needle screech and the sounds of discordant millions, or with a switch to a swelling harmony James Horner would be proud of? I'm hoping for something akin to The Last of the Mohicans theme. Which isn't by Horner, I'm all over the map
Vote democrat in November. And then there is so much to fix