Political Memes

Fascism will happen with or without trump. Billionaire know what they want and they will buy it, this shift to popularism isn’t organic, the crisis’s we witness are brought to us by billionaires and they will scape goat with whoever they can buy.

Okay? Assuming that's true, for the sake of the argument, how the fuck does letting Trump into office help any of that? The guy who openly promised fascism as fast as he can implement it?

Although I do take issue with believing people to be stupid. Most people are fed propaganda, lack critical thinking but anyone can learn. Some of Britain’s greatest anti fascist 1940s were ex fascist’s.

People are often fucking stupid, man. Many are nice. But couldn't find their ass with both hands and a map. I don't think it's curable, only preventable. People calcify in their thinking patterns in their youth, regardless of when their opinions develop.

And generally, people don't change their values. I wouldn't trust an ex-fascist's (as in, a dedicated and politically aware fascist, and not some conscripted kid) political leanings for love or money.

My “dazzling” is born through passion and a want for a just society. Posting here on Lemmy may empower other to do the same or to keep doing.

A Trump victory has worsened our society on every level, and will make changing it harder on every level. Voters were asked to cast a single vote to keep things from taking a nose-dive for everyone, but for minorities in particular, and especially our LGBT brothers and sisters. To prevent additional genocides from breaking out in the world.

And yet that was too much to ask for millions of Americans. Maybe that should've been expected from most of them - most Americans do not have a good civic education, nor do they have strong political ideals. They don't care if fascism wins.

But that it was too much to ask from leftists, who supposedly and professedly were allies of the oppressed? They weren't asked to stop forming mutual aid groups, or assisting union efforts, or, fuck, for that matter arming or organizing themselves. They were asked for a vote. A day. Less than a day in many places. And they said it wasn't worth it. Stopping an open fascist suggesting genocide for minorities from being given control over all the power of the state wasn't worth it.

Do you not see why that is both immensely damaging to the lives of minorities and immensely infuriating whenever someone claims to be an ally and then says "What does fascism winning a bourgeois election matter? We have BIGGER issues to address"?