#they dont care for our countries and cultures!!!! theyre fascists!!!!!

[natandacat]

The more you equate zionism with judaism as a whole, the more antisemitic you become, the more unsafe your country becomes for jews, the more ideological ammunition zionism gets, the more violence palestinians experience, the more anti zionist you become, the more antisemitic you then become bc you conflate the 2, etc etc it never ends

[himboskywalker]

dont care for non-americans coming onto american posts and saying we clearly dont understand what fascism is and that we arent allowed to express how much we dislike trump and his fascist regime. also dislike party pooping idiots who 1. cant take a joke and 2. think theyre the smartest person in existence just bc people prefer joe biden to donald trump, which obviously means we're simps for Daddy Biden, he who can do No Wrong 🥵🥵🥵

I don’t have patience for non-Americans who take up the mindset that because we’re American we don’t understand political and cultural trauma or know what hardship is. It’s the same brand of ignorance that Americans take up with say the Middle East or South America or the Phillipines,or one of a thousand other countries we’ve fucked shit up in,being like wElL wHy aRe tHeY cOrRuPt aNd pOoR oR wOnT aCcEpT oUr hElP?! I understand when you don’t live somewhere you don’t fully comprehend what people go though there and I think the shiny,spoiled,Hollywood image the rest of the world sees of the US completely blinds the reality that we are a 3rd world country under a fascist government with a militarized police force,a radicalized fundamentalist religious group,a for profit utterly corrupt prison system, crippling poverty, and a strucute of violent,silencing and corrupt power that has been a part of our history since before the country’s founding. You don’t understand the fear,terror,and trauma of a group unless you’ve been there,I get that,but I also won’t tolerate people acting like Americans arent allowed to talk about what we’re going through because of what our government has done through foreign policy and war. Like ummm your government destroys other countries did you know you have no idea what true trauma is and that you can’t possibly understand hardship? It’s ignorant to assume your horrible experiences and the atrocities committed against you means that others do not also know those experiences or have been through their own trauma. We carry cultural trauma in the latticework of our dna and the makeup of our brains and if there’s anything we all share in this world it’s trauma of some kind.

I’m angry I had to make the moral decision to back Biden and Harris,but I also refuse to not fight a fascist dictatorship with every fiber of my being. It also makes me angry that people seem so hell bent on telling us we can’t rejoice or take one fucking second to feel hope that things may get better. Humor and joy and relief are components of who we are and what makes us human,and I think to laugh is what makes us human most of all. And on that note,I’m tempted to make a simp sideblog of Biden now that’s called BigDaddyB and is just blatant machine propaganda and photoshopped pictures of him shirtless while eating vanilla ice cream. 🥵 that horrific foreign policy and support of our for profit prison system and support of fracking just really gets my jimmies on,May even have to write some self insert fanfiction and turn away from obikin.

[meso-mijali]

Trump has fired Christopher Krebs, the director of the dept of homeland security's cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency (cisa) because the department released a statement stating that the election was secure and that no voter fraud could be proven in any numbers that would be capable of changing the outcome; this comes on the heels of him firing mark esper the defense secretary. Theres a lot of dangerous things regarding this, ranging from a blatant misuse of authority to remove dissenters and to supress the truth, his stacking the decks even further to ensure that when its time to leave he has people in high possessions in his corner to fight it, and the fact that this is like. Very clearly authoritarian and fascist and reeks of a coup.

As someone who remembers pre-9/11, i can see how we got to this point and its heavy. Its like im filled with lead, as i watch the steady march forward into a country where nearly half the population voted for this, where disinformation is more common than truth, where international politics arent spoken of, taught or routinely broadcast.

Coming directly out of the cold war (1991, i was 1yo), a highly nationalistic era where we as a country pushed the "america is the greatest" mentality in order to justify our continued war efforts and to keep socialism/communism (not the same thing, but marketed as such) out (thanks to the red scare), and directly into 9/11 just 10 years later, we as a society never got to really decompress from that. The mantra of "they attacked because theyre jealous" was common. The idea that america stood alone in the face of "evil" was pushed heavily, both to previous generations and mine (it took me until my 20s before i truly understood that America alone didnt "save" europe) and suppression of other countries aid efforts were never publicized (see: katrina and aid relief, im on mobile but iirc wiki has a good list).

This individualist, nationalist rhetoric became an echo chamber- during the 20th century, anything but love of your country was a dog whistle, and post 9/11, it got to the point where there were legitimate boycotts over french fries.

In a country where you're taught that we only exist because we overthrew tyranny, that taxes are evil, that we "saved" freedom and "gave" people democracy, as if handing it out like candy on Halloween, where any questioning of "America first" policies labels you an extremist, how could we have gone anywhere but here?

When even a neutral stance by the news is considered "liberal", when our liberals are other places conservatives, im not sure what else could have happened. We have an entire capitalist ruling class, desperate to keep us far-right because they wont need to change their practices (or can even become more predatory), a government that doesnt care and is actively in their pockets, a populace thats been steeped in this, culturally, for nearly 100 years, and the people who are most willing to change it are overworked with no protections and cant afford even basic stability.

What else, but this, could have happened?

Im not sure how to fix it. I worry its too late, sometimes.

This is a post of me rambling, putting to words the vauge feelings of dread ive had the past few months(years), and hoping that if someone from a different country reads this, they watch the trends, keep an eye on their society, and take action before it gets like this.

To my fellow Americans- expect trump to attempt a coup. Dont expect a peaceful transition of power. Keep an eye out for your friends, family, cultures. Be careful.

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Trump is no fascist. He is a champion for the forgotten millions | John Daniel Davidson

Obama promised solutions but let the people down. Is it any surprise that they voted for real change?

Amid the ongoing protests against President Trump, calls for resistance among Democratic politicians and activists, and the overheated rhetoric casting Trump and his supporters as fascists and xenophobes, an outsider might be forgiven for thinking that America has been taken over by a small faction of rightwing nationalists.

America is deeply divided, but its not divided between fascists and Democrats. Its more accurate to say that America is divided between the elites and everybody else, and Trumps election was a rejection of the elites.

Thats not to say plenty of Democrats and progressives dont vehemently oppose Trump. But the crowds of demonstrators share something in common with our political and media elites: they still dont understand how Trump got elected, or why millions of Americans continue to support him. Even now, recent polls show that more Americans support Trumps executive order on immigration than oppose it, but you wouldnt know it based on the media coverage.

Support for Trumps travel ban, indeed his entire agenda for immigration reform, is precisely the sort of thing mainstream media, concentrated in urban enclaves along our coasts, has trouble comprehending. The fact is, many Americans who voted for Trump, especially those in suburban and rural areas across the heartland and the south, have long felt disconnected from the institutions that govern them. On immigration and trade, the issues that propelled Trump to the White House, they want the status quo to change.

During his first two weeks in office, whenever Trump has done something that leaves political and media elites aghast, his supporters cheer. They like that he told Mexican president Enrique Pea Nieto he might have to send troops across the border to stop bad hombres down there. They like that he threatened to pull out of an Obama-era deal to accept thousands of refugees Australia refuses to admit. They want him to dismantle Dodd-Frank financial regulations for Wall Street and rethink US trade deals. This is why they voted for him.

The failure to understand why these measures are popular with millions of Americans stems from a deep sense of disconnection in American society that didnt begin with Trump or the 2016 election. For years, millions of voters have felt left behind by an economic recovery that largely excluded them, a culture that scoffed at their beliefs and a government that promised change but failed to deliver.

Nowhere is this disconnection more palpable than in the American midwest, in places such as Akron, a small city in northeast Ohio nestled along a bend in the Little Cuyahoga river. Its downtown boasts clean and pleasant streets, a minor league baseball park, bustling cafes and a lively university. The people are friendly and open, as midwesterners tend to be. In many ways, its an idyllic American town.

Except for the heroin. Like many suburban and rural communities across the country, Akron is in the grip of a deadly heroin epidemic. Last summer, a batch of heroin cut with a synthetic painkiller called carfentanil, an elephant tranquilliser, turned up in the city. Twenty-one people overdosed in a single day. Over the ensuing weeks, 300 more would overdose. Dozens would die.

The heroin epidemic is playing out against a backdrop of industrial decline. At one time, Akron was a manufacturing hub, home to four major tyre companies and a rising middle class. Today, most of that is gone. The tyre factories have long since moved overseas and the citys population has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s. This is what Trump was talking about when he spoke of American carnage in his inaugural address.

Akron is not unique. Cities and towns across Americas rust belt, Appalachia and the deep south are in a state of gradual decline. Many of these places have long been Democratic strongholds, undergirded by once-robust unions.

On election day, millions of Democrats who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 cast their votes for Trump. In those earlier elections, these blue-collar Democrats were voting for change, hoping Obama would prioritise the needs of working Americans over the elites and special interests concentrated in Washington DC and Wall Street.

For many Americans, Hillary Clinton personified the corruption and self-dealing of the elites. But Trumps election wasnt just a rejection of Clinton, it was a rejection of politics as usual. If the media and political establishment see Trumps first couple of weeks in office as a whirlwind of chaos and incompetence, his supporters see an outsider taking on a sclerotic system that needs to be dismantled. Thats precisely what many Americans thought they were doing eight years ago, when they put a freshman senator from Illinois in the White House. Obama promised a new way of governing he would be a post-partisan president, he would fundamentally transform the country, he would look out for the middle class. In the throes of the great recession, that resonated. Something was clearly wrong with our political system and the American people wanted someone to fix it.

After all, the Tea Party didnt begin as a reaction against Obamas presidency but that of George W Bush. As far as most Americans were concerned, the financial crisis was brought on by the excesses of Wall Street bankers and the incompetency of our political leaders. Before the Tea Party coalesced into a political movement, the protesters werent just traditional conservatives who cared about limited government and the constitution. They were, for the most part, ordinary Americans who felt the system was rigged against them and they wanted change.

But change didnt come. What they got was more of the same. Obama offered a series of massive government programmes, from an $830bn financial stimulus, to the Affordable Care Act, to Dodd-Frank, none of which did much to assuage the economic anxieties of the middle class. Americans watched as the federal government bailed out the banks, then the auto industry and then passed healthcare reform that transferred billions of taxpayer dollars to major health insurance companies. Meanwhile, premiums went up, economic recovery remained sluggish and millions dropped out of the workforce and turned to food stamps and welfare programmes just to get by. Americans asked themselves: Wheres my bailout?

At the same time, they saw the world becoming more unstable. Part of Obamas appeal was that he promised to end the unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, restore Americas standing in the international community and pursue multilateral agreements that would bring stability. Instead, Americans watched Isis step into the vacuum created by the US withdrawal from Iraq in 2011. They watched the Syrian civil war trigger a migrant crisis in Europe that many Americans now view as a cautionary tale. At home, Isis-inspired terrorist attacks took their toll, as they did in Europe. And all the while Obamas White House insisted that everything was going well.

Amid all this, along came Trump. Here was a rough character, a boisterous celebrity billionaire with an axe to grind. He had palpable disdain for both political parties, which he said had failed the American people. He showed contempt for political correctness that was strangling public debate over contentious issues such as terrorism. He struck many of the same populist notes, both in his campaign and in his recent inaugural address, that Senator Bernie Sanders did among his young socialist acolytes, sometimes word for word.

In many ways, Trumps agenda isnt partisan in a recognisable way especially on trade. Almost immediately after taking office, Trump made good on a promise that Sanders also made, pulling the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and proclaiming an end to multilateral trade deals. He also threatened US companies with a border tax if they move jobs overseas. These are not traditional Republican positions but they do appeal to American workers who have watched employers pull out of their communities and ship jobs overseas.

Many traditional Republicans have always been uncomfortable with Trump. They fundamentally disagree with his positions on trade and immigration. Even now, congressional Republicans are revolting over Trumps proposed border wall, promising to block any new expenditures for it. Theyre also uncomfortable with Trump personally. For some Republicans, it was only Trumps promise to nominate a conservative supreme court justice to replace Justice Antonin Scalia that won their votes in the end a promise Trump honoured last week by nominating Judge Neil Gorsuch, a judge very much in Scalias mould.

Once Trump won the nomination at the Republican national convention, most Republican voters got on board, reasoning that whatever uncertainty they had about Trump, the alternative Clinton was worse.

In many ways, the 2016 election wasnt just a referendum on Obamas eight years in the White House, it was a rejection of the entire political system that gave us Iraq, the financial crisis, a botched healthcare law and shocking income inequality during a slow economic recovery. From Akron to Alaska, millions of Americans had simply lost confidence in their leaders and the institutions that were supposed to serve them. In their desperation, they turned to a man who had no regard for the elites and no use for them.

In his inaugural address, Trump said: Today, we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, DC, and giving it back to you, the people. To be sure, populism of this kind can be dangerous and unpredictable, But it doesnt arise from nowhere. Only a corrupt political establishment could have provoked a political revolt of this scale. Instead of blaming Trumps rise on racism or xenophobia, blame it on those who never saw this coming and still dont understand why so many Americans would rather have Donald Trump in the White House than suffer the rule of their elites.

John Daniel Davidson is a senior correspondent for theFederalist. He lives in Austin, Texas

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