And this is why the 'swamp' will never be drained. Winning and actually exercising power is considered evil, something 'they' do.
You'll have to forgive me if I'm not the sort to want victory at any cost. A lot of democrats are discovering that voting for Biden and I'd rather not make the same mistake that they're making.
So are you going to tell me tsarist Russia was a communist nation? They had a secret police and arrested people for sedition. What about Spain and its inquisition? Why do “conservatives” always call everything communism or socialism when it isn’t. If you don’t even know your enemies politics and who they are you will lose.
Ah yes, because what's around today is so comparable to a monarchist government. Fantastic comparison there, mate.
This is a pretty dumb take, all things considered.
Is Imperial Germany socialist now? How bout Franco’s Spain, or Pinochet’s regime? Tsarist Russia? How about most of the Middle East?
All Socialist regimes are authoritarian, but not all authoritarian regimes are socialist.
I also find the conservative movements reluctance to hit back at liberals disgustingly weak.
Why should we not use the very powers the enemy has given government against them?
Why should we not hurt them as much as we possibly can when we have power, when they have absolutely no hesitation or scruples about hurting us?
Quite possibly but as stated earlier, I'm not too eager to bloody my hands in the same way the left is.
Fascism and socialism/communism are two sides of the same coin. I couldn't give two flying fucks about the differences as both systems are either so loosely defined that any difference is academic at the best and completely irrelevant at most. The constant refrain of "True communism/socialism," has never been tried won't ever end as the system isn't really built to actually do what it says on the tin. It's to get some guy/party into power under the guise of representing the state/people but in essence allowing said guy/party to rule with an iron fist which is surprisingly similar to how fascism works as socialism/communism and fascism's main benefit is to have the state become everything and the people be enslaved to the state. Any notions of serving the state or the greater good is again, irrelevant.
Using the powers they may have implemented back at them would no doubt be carthartic but the problem continues, power rarely stays on one side or another. It goes to left and it goes to right with both sides trying to stack the deck in their favour, providing new tools for whoever gets in charge next till it's so convoluted that the only course of action available is a civil war and the whole thing either resets or comes crashing down.
Essentially my whole point can be boiled down to, I don't want to dirty my hands using their tactics. You're more than welcome to think otherwise and use their tactics if you like but you'll run the risk of being just as bad or potentially worse than they are.
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