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U S Presidential Election
Any predictions on the result?
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"I do not believe your Honduran chef is ignorant of these things. I think he knows about them and either doesn't care or supports them... such a person is a fascist."
No. You just don't agree with the way he cast his vote - which I believe is where we came in. Nor do lots of the Left-Leaning media types. I believe Emily Mailis had to be led off her own show when she realised a Trump victory was in the offing, her co-presenter having failed to stop her swearing in disgust.
One day those on the Left might realise that the choice of who stands for election and, more importantly, the way people should vote in those elections, are not matters solely for them to decide. But I'll not hold my breath.
at the 2020 labour party conference, Keir Starmer said:-
“Let’s be brutally honest with ourselves. When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don’t look at the electorate and ask them: ‘What were you thinking?’ You look at yourself and ask: ‘What were we doing?’ "
it's all very well those who are not happy with the result last week blaming and name-calling the electorate; perhaps they need to look at what their preferred party did - or didn't do - that ended in their defeat.
"No. You just don't agree with the way he cast his vote - which I believe is where we came in"
a person who knowingly votes for the things i mentioned because it might benefit them is a fascist. if you're comfortable with your fellow citizens being oppressed and mistreated and with democracy being done away with in future because you think you might benefit from it then i'm sorry but you're simply a terrible person. it's no different in principle to people who voted for the nazis in 1933 - "who cares what they'll do to those people so long as i'm alright." that is fascism.
you have tried over and over again to persuade me otherwise and you have not been successful because you have a poor understanding of fascism and frankly of the trump movement. we are not going to progress on this.