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Not solely a right tactic. You also see this with product studies sponsored by big corporations.

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives.[1] In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.[2] A recent threat assessment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that domestic violent extremists are an acute threat and highlighted a probability that COVID-19 pandemic-related stressors, long-standing ideological grievances related to immigration, and narratives surrounding electoral fraud will continue to serve as a justification for violent actions.[3]

“We” are not maintaining the delusion that the right wing monsters are legitimate. It’s the media that has pretended these far right extremist positions are sane, and has elevated them to prominence. If they were honest about how loathsome and unamerican right wing ideals are, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Media corpos are typically run by right wingers, and are massive for-profit companies that make a killing on running election ads (presently a ~20Bn industry cyclic every 4 years), so it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that they do this. And now the Trump admin has weaponized the DOJ to go after them for any criticism at all, so this phenomenon is on steroids currently.

I strongly agree with your last sentence. The media, other politicians, etc - nobody is going to hold right wingers accountable for us. Unfortunately, we have to do it ourselves, to their dumb faces, and force them to face the uncomfortable truths of their reprehensible actions. Good luck, be strong, and find ways to consistently stand up for the morally correct positions. Keeping pressure up this way is a vital component to how we can win.

I can accept that this current government in the USA is packed with the absolute most morally bankrupt people in America, but I just can’t conceive of the idea that 52% of Americans are the same.

What’s that in adults like 110 million? I’m not sure how many kids they have over there.

There just isn’t any chance that all those people are monsters too and you ain’t had a civil war. It seems more likely that most Americans have been propagandised by the media and they just only see what they want to see. I doubt every republican voter is watching the stuff we see as let’s be frank we’re likely all terminally online and more connected than they’re and it ain’t even my county.

Perhaps they only ever interact with other republicans cause surely if they hated the democrats that much then there would be shootings in Walmart everyday.

As say this as in the UK I know people that believe some crazy stuff about illegal immigrants (this term sucks and is a non issue) which has them wanting to kick them out and stuff but these people are not like that and get on with people from other countries but right now they’re blinded by the complete bombardment of that kind of content.

Maybe I’m naive, but I feel unlikely as I’m usually incredibly cynical.

We need to shut down fascists by disrupting their conferences and communications, and dividing them by disparaging the evangelists' support for Trump as betraying Christian values (because Trump is atheist), and by disparaging the fascists' support for evangelists as betraying the state values (in that the church doesn't listen to fascism), and so on. Divide and rule.

Communists need to have more children than the fascists.

Just stop testing

Every German who went to school after 1945, for one.

If only there were another historic event/group that would be make a good comparison.
OH WAIT

Our country is founded on "terrorism". Ask the British.

Quintez Brown attempted to kill Democratic Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, Craig Greenberg, in February 2022. Brown was motivated by Black nationalism, pan-Africanism and revolutionary socialism.

I dunno, to me revolutionary socialism is something I equate with "the left".

Still, 1 out of 30 ain't bad.

I've been simmering on some 'radical left-wing' grafitti such as;

Be Kind

Build Community

Don't Hate

Love Thy Neighbor

But I don't want to get black bagged for spreading such subversive rhetoric.

You know if we actually wanted to get rid of these people it would be really easy. All we have to do is release some deadly but preventable disease. Then encourage everyone to get vaccines.

The problem with covid is that it wasn't really deadly for most people. So they got sick and were probably miserable but they never learnt their lesson.

I got you, fam, the word you are looking for is "jingoism".

The MAGA DOJ is the Department of Jingoism.