I usually parenthacize the R in friend. I'm just a wisearse. Spell it without the R.
Yeah, I know. It's just as out of place and unfunny as someone who insists on spelling therapist as the-rapist.
I'm not going to get into a point by point analysis of the evils of the Democrat Fascist Party.
Because you'd lose.
No two political movements match up that well. But they are then absolute enemies of the American Republic.
Don't change the subject. I'm not asking you to prove that Democrats are 100% Nazis, I'm asking you to prove that their platform and ideology actually match up to the fascists, beyond broad sweeping generalizations that could apply to any authoritarian movement of the past hundred years.
I believe my f(r)iend's mother is thinking of the early days of the Nazis rise. She was there. As to how bad a Democrat Fascist dictatorship could be, no one knew how bad the Nazis could be.
Which could be said of any nascent authoritarian regime. No one knows how bad the new order will be until the mass graves are dug up and the history books are written. I could say the same thing about the dictatorship you would consider a fine trade for whatever future the Democrats will build.
They are using a lot of the same language the Nazis used, including language of repression and genocide.
Which language is that, and is it unique to fascism?
Democratae delenda sunt.
No price is too steep to pay.
Spoken like a keyboard commando who's going to let other people pay the price.
This isn't business. It is war. We must not qualm at the hard choices.
The principle is the same, whether it is war, business, government, or clothes shopping. If no cost is too great, you are either not making rational decisions, or you know you're not the one who is going to have to pay the butcher's bill.
And if you're going to say 'we', you'd better look behind yourself and see just how many people you're actually speaking for.
What do you define as fascism then?
Third way absolutism, with a hefty dose of nationalism and social darwinism.
The thing is, fascists aren't quite socialists. They may use a lot of socialist policies, but they arrived at those policies through different principles than the socialists used, and they broke hard with communism because fascists are nationalists. They aren't capitalists either. They may use market capitalism, but only because they're not so pants-on-head stupid that they want to fight a class war against the bourgeois.
Basically, in fascism, the people are the state and the state is the people. The state exists to advance the cause of the people, and the people exist to serve the state. Fascism rejects the Enlightenment. They called it the debacle of individualism. Individual rights and liberties don't matter to the fascist, and everything the citizen does in life is supposed to be dedicated the service of the state and the unified people.
Fascism is for the only liberty which can be a serious thing, the liberty of the state and of the individual in the state. Therefore for the fascist, everything is in the state, and no human or spiritual thing exists, or has any sort of value, outside the state. In this sense fascism is totalitarian, and the fascist state which is the synthesis and unity of every value, interprets, develops and strengthens the entire life of the people.
Now, while there's certainly progressives and Democrats who worship the state, most of them see an all-powerful federal government as a means to an end, whether that be environmental policy or social justice or whatever. If Democrats were fascists, then they wouldn't be internationalists, and they wouldn't bother with this LGBTQUIAAP2+ nonsense, because those distinctions wouldn't matter to them. I mean, if true-blue fascists called enlightenment "the debacle of individualism", I'd love to see what they would call people who insist on their own pronouns.
