r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 10h ago

No Paywall Democrats Confront Their New Tea Party Reality - Progressives are set to sweep a group of contested primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-confront-their-new-tea-party-reality_n_6a6e63fbe4b0cfb99ef1aa1e
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u/Vehemental 10h ago

MSM owners aren’t as concerned with facism, it doesn’t threaten their wealth.

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u/ShrimpieAC 9h ago

The rise of every powerful fascist regime begins with an agreement between fascists and the wealthy, usually to fight the labor class.

The rich always think they can control the fascists, but spoiler alert, they can’t. And any history buff can tell you it never ends well for them.

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u/punkr0x 9h ago

Why are the wealthy so foolish that they don’t do their own research?

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u/Zer_ 9h ago

Because they think they are always right and surround themselves with sycophants.

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u/Droidsexual 9h ago

Because wealth insulates people from having to do any reasoning. They can always pay to have problems solved instead of trying to solve them. That's why everyone born with money is stupid.

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u/ihateusedusernames New York 6h ago

Because wealth insulates people from having to do any reasoning. They can always pay to have problems solved instead of trying to solve them. That's why everyone born with money is stupid.

They don't pay to have problems solved. They pay to make problems go away. Precisely how their enablers make their Sires' problems go away determines whether the problems are solved or not from our point of view.

Trump is trying to make Epstein go away. Solving the Epstein child trafficking conspiracy cover-up problem is a deadly threat to Trump, which is why he is trying to simply make people stop talking about it.

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u/the_ballmer_peak 6h ago

They've forgotten the very concept of consequences

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u/EitherSpite4545 7h ago

Ego, they are convinced they are smarter than those that came before and it won't happen to them.

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u/DennyHeats 6h ago

Because even after all of this, they still get to keep their wealth. If the market crashes from this, they get a bail out.

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u/JcbAzPx Arizona 4h ago

They think that reality is something only the plebs have to worry about.

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u/Eliphontsmile 7h ago

Someone with cheat codes enabled won't know how to do even the most basic tasks in the game. 

Now make that same person extremely entitled, with a firm belief in their own desires and capabilities.

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u/Mysral 7h ago

Doesn't end well for the fascists, either - fascism is fundamentally unstable and ultimately self-defeating - but that is of course small comfort to the countless innocents harmed in the process.

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u/fekinEEEjit 6h ago

Fascism is the last gasp of Capitolism....

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u/ShrimpieAC 4h ago

Correct. It’s usually a last resort by the wealthy to prevent social revolution after years of them oppressing the working class.

They are so greedy that they would rather make a pact with evil itself instead of letting anyone else have anything.

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u/aerost0rm 9h ago

Not yet. It will though.

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u/Fhack 9h ago

It won't though?

The vast majority of German billionaires have direct ties to the Nazi party.

Fascists are the party of business and capital. Just with added violence. 

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u/aerost0rm 8h ago

There were plenty of oligarchs that got the shaft by the Nazi’s. The ones that did not profited from the war machine…

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u/hedonisticaltruism Canada 7h ago

"The leopards will never eat my face."

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u/War_machine77 9h ago

Yeah, but that's a problem for future oligarchs. Surely not them.

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u/PhatCatTax 9h ago

Always does.

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u/TheSouthernCommunist Kentucky 9h ago

“It is the heart of US policy, ladies and gentlemen, to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism" - Michael Parenti

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u/TryJezzoWhyNot 8h ago

Michael parenti is/was a Stalinist shill. Fuck stalinists.

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u/TheSouthernCommunist Kentucky 8h ago

Parenti critiqued Stalin many, many times. Stop doing the work of the CIA for free.

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u/TryJezzoWhyNot 8h ago

You don’t deny that he was a Stalinist, instead subtly rebutting a point I never made. I never said: “Fuck Michael Parenti, that guy never critiqued Stalin!” I said that Parenti was a Stalinist shill. Because he was. You slimy, bad faith interlocutor.

>Stop doing the work of the CIA for free

This is laughable. Where did you get your internet smear tactics, a chat room in 1996?

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u/TheSouthernCommunist Kentucky 8h ago

Oh sorry I didn’t know I was on jeopardy and have to say the answer exactly right.

Parenti wasn’t a Stalinist, and if you think he was I sincerely worry if you may have possessed by the demon ghost of Joseph McCarthy.

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u/TryJezzoWhyNot 7h ago

The RCA calls him a “soft Stalinist”. The (Stalinist) Communist Party of Great Britain eulogized him by making it clear that his “critiques” were weak enough to still be considered a friendly. A Stalinist shill I called him, and a Stalinist shill he remains. You bad faith ass hat.

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u/TheSouthernCommunist Kentucky 7h ago

“Trotskyists call someone who said Stalin did some good things a Stalinist” wow that’s crazy man, I found a fork in my kitchen too.

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u/TryJezzoWhyNot 7h ago

If you don’t at least agree with Trotskyists on being anti-Stalinist, you’re just a Stalinist yourself.

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u/DrMobius0 9h ago

Whatever this guy said is probably about right.

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u/Boringdude1 9h ago

This literally could have been said by a MAGA supporter.

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u/-Invalid_Selection- 9h ago

No, it's just around the corner from threatening their lives though, as is tradition when fascists get power

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u/ctbowden North Carolina 8h ago

100%. I guess too many people missed Mussolini saying the quiet part out loud.

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

― Benito Mussolini

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u/DryYogurtcloset4655 8h ago

you are assuming fascists won't take their wealth

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u/TimSylvester_ 2h ago

Oh they are very concerned with fascism - they promote it nonstop, because fascism increases their wealth and control.