So this one is from David Pakman, who says that "gee, the right is declaring war on us, everything we support, Trump is trying to attack or dismantle."
Geee...NO CRAP.
Here's the thing. The right are these ideological culture warriors. For them, EVERYTHING is worldview. These guys were brainwashing me with understanding the times and christian nationalism 20 years ago. They've BEEN declaring war on the left. The left has just been living under a rock somewhere.
This is one of the reasons I hated clinton in 2016. Because she was like "no the right isnt the enemy, we need to meet them half way." For me, it was a matter of worldview, and if you meet evil half way, youre still evil. You see, that's the thing. My secular humanist perspective made me declare a counter war on christianity. I recognized the christian nationalist threat for what it was, since I was one of them. I realized that they were no bueno, that we were playing for keeps, and that we had to fight them, openly and firmly. We had to declare war on conservatism as we knew it back in 2016. But the left was just like "well if only we meet them half way" and "we gotta compromise." GUYS. NO. Like, they would wave "but the court" in my face, but why was the court an issue in 2016? Because scalia died, mitch mcconnell refused to fill the vacancy, and because trump won, they sniped the seat for themselves. Obama should have filled the seat. And even proposed merrick garland, who was a bit too conservative in retrospect and who dropped the ball with prosecuting trump as biden's AG. But no, they said, no, were gonna stall you out and install our guy.
Going back further, let's go back to 2011ish when the tea party took over. They went scorched earth against obama. Mitch McConnell was like "no, our ticket to coming back is basically to obstruct dems on everything." So they did. They held the government hostage, tried to force painful concessions, and even though obama tried meeting them halfway, they overplayed their hand and ended up looking TERRIBLE over it, like ideological nutjobs who wouldnt compromise. Because they wont. But what did the dems do? "Well we need to compromise..." F off. (PS, ya understand why I think people need to be told that flatly on the internet sometimes?). Like really, the democrats have been dense. They've been ignoring that the right has been at war with us OPENLY for at least 15 years now. And if you really think about it, they've been at war for around 45 now, if we go back to Reagan. or 30, if we go back to the contract with America and that ugliness from conservatives. or 15, if we cite the tea party. The point is, this isn't a new thing. And democrats need to fight back. They need to wage their own war on the right and its ideological values, and they need to play for keeps too. Stop fricking around, stop compromising to the center, stop the faux civility crap. FIGHT. Fight them like they fight us (well, okay, dont go that far, I respect the constitution enough to not lock up people extrajudicially or to try to go after churches like they go after colleges, keep it within the realm of a liberal democracy here). But beyond that one rule, yeah, go after them. GO for the jugular, politically speaking. Run bold candidates. Advocate for things. Fight for them. Dont back down. Dont give up. Compromise only when necessary.
Seriously, the left should've learned that you can't compromise with the right from the obama administration. Because you can't. So yeah, the right declared war on us. Welcome to the party, pal. Can we do something about this the next time we take power, IF we're ever allowed in power again because it might be too late? Because im convinced if the left actually addressed this properly 10 years ago, the GOP would be DONE by now. They'd be the 1940s GOP again. Instead we went the hitler route instead of the FDR round, because they dropped the ball and because the right plays for keeps and even has continued to raise the stakes through the age of trump where now even the future of democracy itself is at risk. But yeah. The GOP is evil. Their ideas are evil. Just...be the good guys, my god, it's not that hard.
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