The scariest thing to me about the fascist decent of America is all the people applying for jobs on the MAGA goon squad. They don’t disappear if Trump does.
The affirmation of just how corporate the “liberal media” truly is in the face of the obvious fascist threat - just as the left has been saying for maybe six or seven decades now? And yet, the prevailing notion of a “liberal media” continues. The corporate media would much rather have eyeballs and play the both sides game rather than call the repug party what they truly are.
The deep cynicism of some very vocal parts of the left (that I hope are just a very performative minority, possibly even a foreign-led operation). Many over there keep insisting on the most cartoonish aspects of identity politics and the oppression olympics, even attacking allies that they deem are not sufficiently using their very particular framing and terms, etc. This is helping no one; it is just creating division on the left/liberal side, and in fact, it is most likely just creating more right wingers, really. This kind of view will often manifest itself as claiming that Bernie Sanders supporters are racists/misogynists or the like, or that wanting to focus on things like class consciousness and building alliances based on that is somehow racist/transphobic/sexist, etc…I mean, gawd forbid that the left tries to forge common ground with the male white working class instead of only constantly generating resentment and hostility over the differences between groups of people.
The scariest thing to me about the fascist decent of America is all the people applying for jobs on the MAGA goon squad. They don’t disappear if Trump does.
Amen to that.
Two other very disheartening aspects:
The affirmation of just how corporate the “liberal media” truly is in the face of the obvious fascist threat - just as the left has been saying for maybe six or seven decades now? And yet, the prevailing notion of a “liberal media” continues. The corporate media would much rather have eyeballs and play the both sides game rather than call the repug party what they truly are.
The deep cynicism of some very vocal parts of the left (that I hope are just a very performative minority, possibly even a foreign-led operation). Many over there keep insisting on the most cartoonish aspects of identity politics and the oppression olympics, even attacking allies that they deem are not sufficiently using their very particular framing and terms, etc. This is helping no one; it is just creating division on the left/liberal side, and in fact, it is most likely just creating more right wingers, really. This kind of view will often manifest itself as claiming that Bernie Sanders supporters are racists/misogynists or the like, or that wanting to focus on things like class consciousness and building alliances based on that is somehow racist/transphobic/sexist, etc…I mean, gawd forbid that the left tries to forge common ground with the male white working class instead of only constantly generating resentment and hostility over the differences between groups of people.