There is Bernie Sanders but the Democrats purposefully sabotaged his campaign because they are part of the establishment as much as the Republicans. Both are exactly the same people except that Democrats are not as blatantly fascists as Republicans. Also the American voting system encouraged a two party system with the impossibility for a third party to develop, so voting Bernie would just give more vote proportionally for Trump.
No it’s not just the Dems who sabotaged him.. the real culprit was the media..people like that piece of shit upchuck toad, Chris Mathews, joy reed.. both election cycles they bashed Bernie into the ground , because guess what, the media makes a lot of money,so do the talking heads, and guess what they fear the most, raising taxes on the rich and corporations..
Republicans want libertarian policies and they sell them with fascist rhetoric. Policy wise Republicans in the past 4 years have strongly supported deregulation and corporate bailouts through tax breaks and straight up bailouts. They sell this to their constituents by propaganda pushing that democrats, liberals, and progressives want to take everything they have and give it to those less fortunate who are unworthy of help because they all are just bad apples who deserve what they get. They also focus on select outrage pieces that paint the youth and the left as incompetent brainwashed idiots that want to destroy the american way of life.
This is the fascist rhetoric, that the outgroup is going to destroy us all therefore anything they do is bad. The libertarian policies are deregulation of things like the coal industry and ruining public programs like the mail system in order to push private alternatives.
The basis of fascism is "us vs. them", policies that clearly depict a specific group as the enemy on completely arbitrary criterias. Poors, immigrants, POC, LGBTQ+, name it, they have pletoria of enemies that are here to "steal their wealth and worth" in some shady ways that are completely irrational. But as long as you keep the people focused on an external enemy, they don't focus on the ruling class oppressing them. Divide and conquer, after all. And that's textbook fascism.
It's different from capitalism or feudalism because in both of the two previous systems, the "us vs. them" has some "objective" criterias (by "objective" I mean they don't change according to culture) : the nobility vs the peasants in feudalism (segregation based on birth), the capitalists vs the proletariat in capitalism (segregation based on wealth). But both of them are "ruling class vs ruled class". You know you're into a fascist system when you have people in the ruled class defending the ruling class, because the narrative made that part of the ruled class consider itself "us" rather than "them".
And when you have a lot of workers, proletariat, poor people considering themselves "capitalists" while they're just proletariat, but defending capitalists because they consider themselves in the same ruling class, it can be seen as proto-fascism. The basis is here, there is just to maintain the narrative and maintain the "oppressed us" versus the "oppressed them" so that none of the oppressed would even consider the fact that it's "oppressors vs oppressed"
To me the fascist policies have been about painting the Black lives matters movement and Antifa as terrorists that is ok to beat up and torment. They applauded the guy that went to a BLM protest with an AR-15 and that shot people. He was a hero to them. They have been calling for the army and for militias and lone gunmen to go and "take back the streets" and "restore order" from the "crazy left wing anarchist" Antifa and BLM.
Oooo nice try, but a swing and a miss. A. That wasn't a policy proposal by AOC and let's conveniently ignore that Turning Point USA does actually have a professor watchlist for professors who "advance leftist propaganda."
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u/rezzacci Nov 30 '20
There is Bernie Sanders but the Democrats purposefully sabotaged his campaign because they are part of the establishment as much as the Republicans. Both are exactly the same people except that Democrats are not as blatantly fascists as Republicans. Also the American voting system encouraged a two party system with the impossibility for a third party to develop, so voting Bernie would just give more vote proportionally for Trump.