Fascism. They keep dancing around it, but what they want is fascism.

This isn’t politics. They want to remake US politics into a fascist state, and they’re not even that shy about it.

Thankfully only about 30% of US adults are falling for this grift. Unfortunately about the same percentage of Germans fell for it in the late 1920s. It seems really low, but it’s enough if the rest of us are complacent.

So let’s not be complacent.

This is the kind of thing I'd read as alarmist and extremely suspect.

Except it's very real. Coupled with their "Mandate for Leadership" (PDF), they will fuck shit up.

Here's a quote from The Heritage Foundation, who created helped put it all together:

In November 2016, American conservatives stood on the verge of greatness. The election of Donald Trump to the presidency was a triumph that offered the best chance to reverse the left’s incessant march of progress for its own sake. Many of the best accomplishments, though, happened only in the last year of the Trump administration, after our political appointees had finally figured out the policies and process of different agencies, and after the right personnel were finally in place.

the Heritage project leans into what legal scholars refer to as a unitary view of executive power that suggests the president has broad authority to act alone.

Did the fascists not just come for student loan forgiveness on the bullshit claim that Biden didn't have the executive power to do something like that?

Fuck these traitorous pieces of shit. If this shit doesn't stop we're about to be living in the fucking Pinochet regime (which was the brainchild of American conservatives, because of course it fucking was) and academics and musicians and authors are going to start getting disappeared along with our LGBTQ family, friends and neighbors. What a fucking shit show. And apparently there's not much we can do about it, except vote. As though that's ever done a fucking thing with an absolute anachronism of an electoral system.

I can't help the nihilism sometimes, jfc.

Straight out of the Nazi handbook

I feel physically ill... I went to school from 96 to 2010.... I remember social studies and American history... The Holocaust being taught... I remember asking my teachers... What would happen if people tried to change our country to dictatorships... Every teacher was emphatic that it would never happen.. one, because both parties love the country and two this is why we learn about Hitler and Stalin.......

Wtf happened?!

Nothing says "conservative" quite like destroying the thing you were supposed to conserve.

“We need to flood the zone with conservatives,” how about I flood your mouth with my balls

I honestly am at a loss of words, this is extremely scary and nerve wracking. I couldn't describe the bottomless pit I feel in my stomach, you either know it or are in on it. If republicans get into office it's game over, nothing less then a monolithic dystopia. We need to stop this at all costs, even if it gets physical, this has gone on for too long without much resistance.

Conservatives? Exactly what are they conserving? They are #fascists, plain & simple. We must stomp them out.

Here's a taste of their plan.

"Unaccountable federal spending is the secret lifeblood of the Great Awokening. Nearly every power center held by the Left is funded or supported, one way or another, through the bureaucracy by Congress. Colleges and school districts are funded by tax dollars. The Administrative State holds 100 percent of its power at the sufferance of Congress, and its insulation from presidential discipline is an unconstitutional fairy tale spun by the Washington Establishment to protect its turf. Members of Congress shield themselves from constitutional accountability often when the White House allows them to get away with it. Cultural institutions like public libraries and public health agencies are only as "independent" from public accountability as elected officials and voters permit."

"Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not apolitical Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters ofwomen. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders.

And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered. In our schools, the question of parental authority over their children's education is a simple one: Schools serve parents, not the other way around. That is, of course, the best argument for universal school choice-a goal all conservatives and con- servative Presidents must pursue. But even before we achieve that long-term goal, parents' rights as their children's primary educators should be non-negotiable in American schools. States, cities and counties, school boards, union bosses, princi- pals, and teachers who disagree should be immediately cut off from federal funds.

The noxious tenets of "critical race theory" and “gender ideology" should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country. These theories poison our children, who are being taught on the one hand to affirm that the color of their skin fundamentally determines their identity and even their moral status while on the other they are taught to deny the very creatureliness that inheres in being human and consists in accepting the givenness of our nature as men or women.

Allowing parents or physicians to "reassign" the sex of a minor is child abuse and must end. For public institutions to use taxpayer dollars to declare the superiority or inferiority of certain races, sexes, and religions is a violation of the Constitu- tion and civil rights law and cannot be tolerated by any government anywhere in the country."

Lock them all up.

We’re at the point where the words- “conservative” and “traitor” are synonymous.

They’re openly and actively trying to dismantle the United States.

18 USC 2383: Rebellion or insurrection

Text contains those laws in effect on August 30, 2023

From Title 18-CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

PART I-CRIMES

CHAPTER 115-TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

§2383. Rebellion or insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?hl=false&edition=prelim&req=granuleid%3AUSC-1999-title18-section2383&num=0

An entire group of people making more more than doctors sitting on think tanks writing plans how they can make everything go to shit. Also tax-free status.

“Trump’s vision”? He has no vision outside of self-gratification or people just giving him literal and figurative fellatio at all hours of the day. We’re talking about the most easily manipulated person on the planet who will literally just go with the last thing that was said to him, no matter how fucking stupid it is.

America will be an openly-fascist state in my lifetime.

America crushed fascism a few generations ago and we'll do it again

On a nearly daily basis now, I'm reminded that a significant number of the people who make up the power structure in the US are in fact profoundly mentally ill.

One can only hope that we serve as an object lesson for future civilizations - whatever you do, don't let psychopaths run free.

Trumps vision: "Golden showers everywhere!"

This is some scary shit. I really don't understand the Trump cult at all.

Basically turning into terrorists

The only vision Trump has is of himself in the mirror.

This is what we need