It would be nice if my country could have two functional political parties. Right now we have one that thinks if it does something once a decade it is too radical and the other is eating horse dewormer.
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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We have a conservative party and a proto-fascist party.
The vast majority of Americans are neither.
Edit: probably not vast, but an easy majority
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Two sides of the same coin, honestly.
Anti-"woke" means refusing to acknowledge the presence of systematic injustice.
"Law & Order" is the dogwhistle for cranking up the tangible effects of systematic injustice.
"Law & Order" = Straight Fascism, No Chaser
"Law & order" has always been code for putting [whatever marginalized group you don't like] in jail.
Yes, DeSantis schtick is getting old. It's not a real policy. Most people don't even have a clear view of what woke is even supposed to mean.
Even Trump doesn't care for it.
“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear ‘woke woke woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” Donald Trump
When Donald Trump is the voice of treason, you know shit's gone way off the rails.
... voice of treason...
Can't tell if typo or autocorrect.
Typo, but I'm not gonna fix it.
He went on to complain about woke shit at his very next speaking event. Don't give him even that much credit
He just doesn't like the word "woke" because he didn't make it up
What would be fucking grand is if they tired of voting.
I'm hoping at least a significant number have since Trump has spent years now telling them that their votes didn't count anyway.
I'd be fine if they just would get over their lying, grifting, shit-slinging "leaders." Of course, while I'd like if there were "legitimate" conservative candidates, the truth is that I don't know what that would even look like. Eisenhower?
You mean some of them are starting to remember that people are just free to have their own opinions on things? Who could have seen it coming...
Problem with the outrage/fear machine is its not sustainable. The brain gets tired of it eventually, particularly when there's some cognitive dissonance down there somewhere.
Hate, anger and the church pulpit are the main things that drive a right wing voter.
The word may change, as it has many times in the past, but the emotion behind it will never be abandoned.
It's not even the church pulpit. It's whatever shit they're spewing on YouTube, newsmax, OAN, truth social, etc.
Some "church" pulpits are helping spew that stuff, too. (Not all churches, and I'd go so far as to say not real churches. Political campaign theaters masquerading as religious institutions.)
Can you get tired of something you don't under and can't define, even though for it's pretty easy to understand and define for a normal person?
They're just getting tried of hearing DeSantis say it 800 times a minute. And he can't even define it.
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They're tired of the current entry on the "then they came for" list.
They want to move on to the next largest minority group they can demonize.
They’ve run out of trigger words and myopic symbolism.
Wokeness has been made into a bigger issue than needed.
The only way you could think it's an issue at all is if you have no idea what the word means.
I don't think they're actually beginning to care about other people's opinions and beliefs, I think, I PRAY, they've begun to realize that campaigning on the idea you're going to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on enforcing their beliefs isn't what you pay taxes for.
I beg of them to realize exactly how much these republican bastards waste their OWN money on useless crap instead of the schools, infestructure, and societal improvements they're meant to be spent on.
Hell, I know I am...
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