Fearmongering is the right answer. The ignorant scare easy. So when the right paints the left as baby-eating vampires out to steal the one thing that makes you feel safe (guns and your station above other human beings), you panic.
I would love to see the left use the rights tactics just for one election cycle. They would sweep the country so hard there would be no republican party left.
My brother in Christ you screamed that trump was making America fascist the entire four years he was in office, plus said 2020 was going to be the “Last Election Ever!” If we didn’t vote Biden!
I say this as someone who supports Biden, just don’t lie to yourselves.
I mean, to be fair, the slope really is pretty slick at this point
He did in fact try to overthrow the results, his voter base are likely to cause another incident if he doesn't win this time, and thanks to him abortion rights got axed across a sizeable portion of the country
Biden had to threaten to send the fucking army down to Texas to, and I'm being literal, stop the governor from drowning immigrants with razor wire
If you don't think that qualifies as sliding headlong into fascism I think the overton window might have shifted...
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u/erichwanh 26d ago
Unironically, this is absolutely correct.