You’re forgetting it also has to be totalitarian under a dictator. It is fundamentally antidemocratic.
Do Dems violently suppress opposition? I don’t recall any peaceful Republican protests being broken up by tear gas and riot cops. Dems aren’t nationalist and are actively anti-racist. Hierarchical is a weird one because that applies to any form of representative government.
My sibling in Koalemos’ ignorance, republicans aren’t the democrat’s opposition. Every democrat proudly repeats the lie that America is the greatest country in the world at every opportunity, while stoking the same fears about illegal immigrants republicans do.
Take a step back and actually think about the president for a second. Think about all the mechanisms that exist that are allowing Trump to do what he wants. So what mechanisms were stopping any previous president from doing the same? You are watching a group of people pass the chair between themselves and calling it democracy.
It simply isn’t true that Democrats speak about immigrants the way Republicans do. Republicans treat immigrants as sub-humans without rights.
So what mechanisms were stopping any previous president from doing the same?
They didn’t control every branch of the government and they operated in good faith. No system can withstand a leader operating in bad faith who controls all the checks on his power.
There’s tons of state violence under Democrats. Do you suppose Democrats didn’t vote for private prisons, to help provide cheap slave labour by the mostly black working poor? Did you suppose the Democrats actually defunded the paramilitary cops in your country, or did they just say they would? Did they fully support the construction of an authoritarian surveillance state where your every word is ingested into the machine to enable targeted ICE raids and unfettered access by the fascist cops. What about the dept of homeland security? And they confirmed all of Trump’s appointments right, including Hegseth? And they never engaged in completely unjustified foreign bombing campaigns? What about the endless votes in support of the nra? Does nobody die because of corporations being largely unregulated in America? You are surrounded by violence but you can’t see it.
It’s not specifically targeting the opposition. It isn’t to consolidate the Democrats as the sole party in power. Democrats aren’t throwing people in jail just for being Republicans. ICE isn’t rounding up RNC members. They aren’t teargassing pro-life rallies.
I’m not denying there is violence, but the motive for the violence matters.
Both your parties tick most of the boxes of the commonly understood definitions of fascism, being able to choose your fascists doesn’t really change that.
You’re forgetting it also has to be totalitarian under a dictator. It is fundamentally antidemocratic.
Do Dems violently suppress opposition? I don’t recall any peaceful Republican protests being broken up by tear gas and riot cops. Dems aren’t nationalist and are actively anti-racist. Hierarchical is a weird one because that applies to any form of representative government.
My sibling in Koalemos’ ignorance, republicans aren’t the democrat’s opposition. Every democrat proudly repeats the lie that America is the greatest country in the world at every opportunity, while stoking the same fears about illegal immigrants republicans do.
Take a step back and actually think about the president for a second. Think about all the mechanisms that exist that are allowing Trump to do what he wants. So what mechanisms were stopping any previous president from doing the same? You are watching a group of people pass the chair between themselves and calling it democracy.
It simply isn’t true that Democrats speak about immigrants the way Republicans do. Republicans treat immigrants as sub-humans without rights.
They didn’t control every branch of the government and they operated in good faith. No system can withstand a leader operating in bad faith who controls all the checks on his power.
Biden and Obama both deported more people than Trump.
Ah yes, as we all know, words speak louder than actions and you shouldn’t believe someone when they show you who they are.
Convenient that you ignore immigration rates and the rate of legal immigrations processed, which were both higher under Biden and Obama.
There’s tons of state violence under Democrats. Do you suppose Democrats didn’t vote for private prisons, to help provide cheap slave labour by the mostly black working poor? Did you suppose the Democrats actually defunded the paramilitary cops in your country, or did they just say they would? Did they fully support the construction of an authoritarian surveillance state where your every word is ingested into the machine to enable targeted ICE raids and unfettered access by the fascist cops. What about the dept of homeland security? And they confirmed all of Trump’s appointments right, including Hegseth? And they never engaged in completely unjustified foreign bombing campaigns? What about the endless votes in support of the nra? Does nobody die because of corporations being largely unregulated in America? You are surrounded by violence but you can’t see it.
It’s not specifically targeting the opposition. It isn’t to consolidate the Democrats as the sole party in power. Democrats aren’t throwing people in jail just for being Republicans. ICE isn’t rounding up RNC members. They aren’t teargassing pro-life rallies.
I’m not denying there is violence, but the motive for the violence matters.