Why else would they also seek a blanket revocation of our right to bear arms?
Is this an actual serious proposal by the administration, or more “well, a couple of the lunatic fringe in Congress have put it forward” or “well, I could seeeee this happening.”
who are currently pushing for the FBI to define all transgender people as terrorists and lock us all up.
So, when you wrote this, did you actually mean “okay, they aren’t doing it now but they might in future!” or did you not know what was actually being proposed?
Because this is the key. There is a huge difference between the worst case scenario I can imagine and what is happening.
Consider the flip side. When the Right says that the Democrats are just one step away from communism because folks like AOC say there shouldn’t be billionaires or Mamdami wants to run government grocery stores, I would imagine you see those as pretty nonsensical claims. But, they’re doing the exact thing you are, where they’re taking a handful of proposals, grossly misrepresenting the content and saying it’s a path to ruin. So, we tend to tune them out.
Or, you could look at trump 2016. There were some worrying parallels between him and fascist beginnings but at the end of the day, an election was held and, despite his best efforts he left. And now, the mainstream is pretty suspicious of us when we scream fascist at the actual scary stuff.
By the way, by admitting that what I see happening looks a lot like historical examples of the steps towards genocide, it is possible to paint me as a terrorist under the proposed TIVE categorization.
Read the section I quoted again and you’ll see this isn’t the case unless you ignore a large swathe of it. Again, being able to imagine something is not the same as it being true.
Is this an actual serious proposal by the administration, or more “well, a couple of the lunatic fringe in Congress have put it forward” or “well, I could seeeee this happening.”
So, when you wrote this, did you actually mean “okay, they aren’t doing it now but they might in future!” or did you not know what was actually being proposed?
Because this is the key. There is a huge difference between the worst case scenario I can imagine and what is happening.
Consider the flip side. When the Right says that the Democrats are just one step away from communism because folks like AOC say there shouldn’t be billionaires or Mamdami wants to run government grocery stores, I would imagine you see those as pretty nonsensical claims. But, they’re doing the exact thing you are, where they’re taking a handful of proposals, grossly misrepresenting the content and saying it’s a path to ruin. So, we tend to tune them out.
Or, you could look at trump 2016. There were some worrying parallels between him and fascist beginnings but at the end of the day, an election was held and, despite his best efforts he left. And now, the mainstream is pretty suspicious of us when we scream fascist at the actual scary stuff.
Read the section I quoted again and you’ll see this isn’t the case unless you ignore a large swathe of it. Again, being able to imagine something is not the same as it being true.