"My enemy is simultaneously too weak and too strong"
Straight up fascism from conservatives
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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To be fair, as a democrat, I generally view conservative voters as easily-misled people - essentially "dumb," I view conservative leaders as thugs trying to overthrow America, and I view conservative corporate heads as ruling class elites. When you're using such an overarching term as "Conservative" or "Left" it comes with the unsaid caveat that there are many subgroups that can differ greatly from one another.
Fascism requires an enemy that is too strong, to unify a base; and too weak, to convince the base of their superiority.
And the "liberal news media" controls all the information. You know, that media that is all owned by about six corporations.
Look up "news consolidation" sometime. In the 1980s, all the news outlets were ultimately owned by about 30-40 companies.
Ive also seen people who praise Elon Musk and Trump who said that the left is far right
the left is all. the left is life
My views on Republicans are similar. The voters are both ignorant and poor, as well as selfish and wealthy. Those are two subsets of the same group. The leadership tends to fall into the latter category, with a few idiots thrown in for good measure.
Most comments make this conclusion.
But none mention that at this point, hating on the left, the right or anyone other than those shoveling money is helping the status quo stay like it is.
Any radicalization is a direct effect of financial despair (slowly creeping up). The fascists are a symptom but the greedy are the disease.
It is what brought hitler to power and it is the same for trump. Please unionize and start striking, your life depends on it.
Nice. Needs more AI hands.
To be fair to the morons, the elitists are paying the weak and the thugs to do their Big Bad Communist Bidding, according to your average flyover uncle. "Fage CEO is paying the Clinton's to import refugees to steal our jobs and vote in our elections", something my dad suggested in 2019 or so.
Even common Lemmy/reddit talking points are that rich corporate interests pay stooges like DeSantis and McConnell to keep the rubes voting for oligarchy.
Any political party is going to be a coalition, to a degree.
But yes I do agree to an extent with the meme that the average conservative armchair theorist doesn't really see how their theories fit together.
What if I told you "the left" isn't a single person...
I truly don't mean to be pedantic here, but aren't these nearly word for word the same beliefs Left-leaning people here have about the Right in America?
Maybe if you're being generous and want to write out the other side of these beliefs you could leave out the descriptors "lazy and weak" and replace them with "psychotic and brainwashed", but other than that, is this meme not the same for Left and Right?
I mean, it's a large enough group that they're not necessarily mutually exclusive. And I happen to think the last 2 things about the right 🤣
American Left?