Liberals are not saying the first line, or if they’re saying it then it’s not sincere. They keep lecturing us about how we need to tolerate fascism currently manifesting toward other marginalized groups because a hypothetical scenario would be worse. Liberals have shown repeatedly that they have a level of fascism they consider acceptable.
You think so? Because I’ve seen a ton of liberals all over Lemmy (and other social media) jumping to defend Biden for enabling genocide, and specifically blaming any critisizm of the Dems from the left on Russian propaganda. In communities that -by every right- ought to be leftist spaces too.
Liberalism is a right-wing ideology, so it’s no surprise there’s crossover between the Democrats and Republicans in the US. The liberal worldview upholds capitalism and imperialism, and it always eventually devolves into fascism, which is what we’re seeing now.
There’s a reason rule 4 exists in this community. There’s a place for communities where we can interact with liberals and hope to wake them up, but there’s also a place like this for leftists to talk to each other without the constant screaming of right-wingers. Liberals are arguably even more dangerous than straight-up fascists since they are far more enticing and deceptive, and they sugar-coat their hate in the cloak of politeness. (Unless they’re talking to anyone to the left of Reagan, in which case they start screaming at us in frustration and using dehumanizing terms like “Russian bot,” since they don’t like being exposed for what they are. I personally have DMs calling me a “bot,” “Nazi,” “troll,” “psyops,” “useful idiot,” “fascist,” and “tankie” – I’m an anarchist lol.)
Visit almost any default news or politics community on reddit or here in the fediverse on .world, and you’ll definitely see this happening.
I agree with you though that Democrats are basically just another GOP at this point. They’ve always been, but the mask has really come off since 2020.
I’ve commented somewhere else that the most key quality of a lib is that they strive to dismantle the things that hinder liberties. Nowadays it’s clear that the biggest authority is capitalism, thus logically any right winger can’t be a lib. Fascists have appropriated the term tho and try to disguise as neoliberalism (creating lots of convenient confusion), which seems to be the main agenda in the US.
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