Democrats’ calls for civility may inadvertently enable fascist tactics
inadvertently
[citation needed]
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2024
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It was definitely advertently
Weren't the Democrats the ones calling this election "the only way to save democracy?" Wasn't Donald Trump a fascist who was going to destroy the country and kill people? And now we need to "bring down the temperature?"
Either they were lying before, or they're lying now.
Who was the party threatening to use the military on their opposition? The democrats don't have faith this will work, their only hope to avoid a night of long knives is to pray they were wrong. I don't think they were though
You are a fool if you can’t see the difference between “vote for our candidate to save democracy” and “we need to use the military against our enemies from within”.
Either you’re arguing in bad faith comrade, or you’re one of the useful idiots that helped Trump get into office.
If Trump is really a threat to democracy the only explanation I have for the Democrat's behavior is that they don't really care that much about it.
Wait, what do you expect the democrats to do? Start a civil war? Surrender and disappear?
I assume they are trying their best to do damage control - and to prevent the destruction of democracy with the tools they have left. Which is not much.
They could start by not telling people to calm down.
I think is strangely it.
As long as you keep a civil tone. Not maga, just you.
Exactly. We heard this rhetoric for years and it's like "OK and... you're just going to run Biden's animated corpse against him?"
And then after the election we need to "bring down the temperature."
Either they're an existential threat to democracy or they're not. If they are Democrats should start acting like it.
Liberals are just waiting for a big, strong man to come and save them.
Liberals have long fantasized about Jon Stewart running for president (I was one of them once). I've always said that that Trump is the other side of that coin-- a plaintalking TV personality with no real connections in Washington. Stewart is too smart to want the job
It's clear to me that Democrats are just there to collect their donor cash. It's easier to raise money from a defensive position because they can amp up the fearmongering while also never having to fight for a policy their base wants. It's brilliant from a game-theory perspective but it screws all of us pretty hard
I don't have a solution aside from "get money out of politics", which requires more drastic solutions like general strikes or political violence (one may cause the other).
I tell you what-- I sure wish that Crooks guy succeeded in Pennsylvania. Would have cut through some bullshit and introduced uncertainty to a system that needs shaking up
You can swap out Dem and Republican in the summary and it still holds true.