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The frightening realisation to take away is that most people don’t have a visceral horror of fascism in the way that progressives on Mastodon do. Which makes sense: if fascism was regarded with widespread revulsion, the Trumps and Orbans and Netanyahus of this world would be as successful as someone running a dogshit sandwich stall at the local market.

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The frightening realisation to take away is that most people don’t have a visceral horror of fascism in the way that progressives on Mastodon do.

Oh, don’t worry. Many of the people on the Fediverse don’t have a visceral horror of fascism either. To them it’s “Both sides are fascist” because otherwise they might feel uncomfortable letting Trump win, and wouldn’t feeling uncomfortable about that just be awful.

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You are totally right.

Fascism appeals to humanity’s most basic impulses and fascists will therefore always be a threat to democracy.

People crave the strong, authoritarian leader who will protect them from danger.

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Says the guy whose head has been in the sand while we talk about what a bad choice Biden is for a couple years now.

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Pony up nutjob, who is your candidate who can win 270 Electoral College votes at a higher likelihood than the sitting President?

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Now? You mean after the dems refused to allow a primary / primary debates and have been shouting from the rooftops that dementia grandpa is the only candidate who can beat Trump?

Correction. Genocide enabling dementia grandpa

Hmmm….

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most people don’t have a visceral horror of fascism

No the problem is instead of:

Fascists vs non-fascist

We get:

Fascists vs slightly less fascist

That’s not good enough to win elections. It’s not a binary choice between 0 and 1, it’s 0.5 and 1.

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Y’all know there is a third choice? protest vote.

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Also known as voting for the spoiler. Remind us again how that works out?

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Might as well just shit in your own hat for all the good that will do anyone.

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Uhh, Trump was the protest vote for a lot of people, unfortunately (Defifuckinlutely not me). Also, soooo few people vote, particularly in non-presedential year elections.

I always strategically vote for the best candidate, and live in a state which allows me to do so without impacting chances of the (more) fascist candidate winning the general election.

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That’s not going to stop trump.

What will stop trump is running a good candidate.

But Biden and the people he appointed to run the DNC would rather trump win than Biden step aside for the good of the country

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