Major USA political affiliations explained
Major USA political affiliations explained
Good ole fishhook theory
Ah, fishhook theory, also known as "everyone even slightly to the right of me is a Nazi"
I'm honestly, honestly convinced that the villification of centrism and liberalism on both leftist and right political ideology is designed to increase disagreement and prevent compromise on political issues, likely for people to focus on race or politics over class issues, or to prevent good faith discussion of issues to prevent social progress.
I know, without a doubt this will be voted down, but I'm actually asking you to think about this critically before both political extremes go down the authoritarian route and it becomes too late to actually unify people to rationale and true dialectics.
Both the Democrats and the Republicans are right wing, therefore “centrism” and “compromise” are necessarily also right wing. Bernie Sanders, in calling for welfare capitalism, is objectively a centrist, so centrism is as “extreme” as is allowed in the leftward direction.
both political extremes go down the authoritarian route
Firstly for all practical purposes there is no left in the US, “extreme” or otherwise, and secondly horseshoe theory is bullshit.
Dude. This ain't a meme. It was passable as a shitpost.
This is three strikes and they're blocked for this fuckin guy.
Is this a satire post?
One characteristic I often hear about fascist states is that voicing opinions against the state will get you punished or possibly disappeared.
My observations is that people in the US are still free to criticize the government however they see fit.
Do you have examples to the contrary, or if not, how to you reconcile this?
Police forcibly removing peaceful protestors who say israel is commiting genocide. To me this is trying to silence critisicm of the intitution supporting it
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. — Rosa Luxemburg
There’s the ongoing nationwide persecution of college students protesting genocide, for one.
How US gov’t prosecution of Uhuru activists threatens a ‘First Amendment exception’
Then there’s Julian Assange, who the US has been persecuting from afar for the last 13 years despite 1) breaking no US laws, 2) not being a US resident or citizen and 3) not having been on US soil. It does this to threaten journalists not just at home but everywhere.
Students have always been persecuted, throughout human and US history.
It was like that in the French Revolution era, it was like that in the 60s–70s, and it's like that in this era.
My point is that students being persecuted is by no means a thing unique to this era; it's because college has been and still is a place where people are encouraged to think and governments have never liked that.
This dude again?
Blocked..