Are all Republicans neo-Nazis?

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I don’t disagree, but as an example, I wouldn’t call a Jew who helped out Nazis because they were extremely afraid and, on some level, weak, a “Nazi,” and in my opinion, that would be a much closer call.

Likewise, I don’t consider black people who vote Republican to be “white power neo-Nazis,” and I think saying that is, well, nonsensical. I think people forget that many people never read the news. Many people get sucked-into the rah-rah tribalism of party politics, are accepted and used as minority representatives by the actual white power neo-Nazis, and are honestly often none the wiser. They don’t know anything about domestic and foreign policy, economics, history.

Are these people stooges of white power neo-Nazis? Absolutely. Is a large percentage (the majority) of the Republican Party absolutely in support of white power? You betcha, although I don’t think most of them would realize it. But again, to say that 70 million Americans are literal white power neo-Nazis, at this point, because they voted Republican? Do it if you want, but I won’t be going there at this point.

But back to the utility issue, which is what drives me the most on this point. If you just want to say 70-million Americans are neo-Nazis, first, that sets a tone where we should consider going to war against them, actual war, and kill them immediately. I don’t like that one bit.

It also feeds into what I think will be failed attempts to try to appeal to the, I don’t know what it is, 5-10% of Republicans who could potentially be brought back from the brink? I am happy to educate them about why the Republican Party has become such a thing, but the moment you just write that person off as a neo-Nazi, I think you’ve lost your ability to grab back that 5-10% of the GOP voting base. And you know what? I think scraping 5-10% off of the GOP voting base, post-Trump, post-Jan 6th, would be the smartest thing for progressives to concentrate on right now. Lock the GOP out of national power permanently. It could happen, and I think these labels for 70-million Americans work against that effort.

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If it marches like a duck, talks like a duck and votes like a duck. It is, in fact, a duck.

If Republicans don’t want to be ducks, then they need to disavow the ducks and stop voting for duckism.

I wouldn’t hold my breath.

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“It’s got different feathers to those other ducks, though!”

Still a fucking duck.

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Brings a whole new meaning to snowblind.

Weather

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There’s light-years of distance between being compelled to support something through fear of death, and fear of losing wealth or power.

The GOP would fall into the latter category.

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It is so very important not to call Republicans neo-Nazis unless they are, literally, trying to recreate something called the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Can you imagine if we called them something so mean to hear, and it turned out they were only trying to overturn democracy, enforce white supremacy, build concentration camps for minorities, lynch blacks and Jews, and things like that? Who then would be the real bad guys, I ask you?

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Still them. :speak_no_evil:

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Be more Olaf.

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I’m pretty sure that was razor sharp sarcasm served with a healthy side of hyperbole.

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Silly, that’s just Sparkling National Socialism…

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I’m aware. :upside_down_face:
Still them though.

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It’s always them.

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“Your honor, we object to describing my client as missing. He’s just marinating on the lamb.”

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The 2022 election will indeed be quite a litmus test. We obviously haven’t seen a post-Jan. 6th election, and I’m not sure if anybody knows how many people will abandon the GOP next time around. We shall see.

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Was every German in the Nazi Party someone who could have stomached working in a concentration camp? Doesn’t matter, they didn’t need to be. The situation just needed their SUPPORT, and ENOUGH people who could stomach working in concentration camps. Just standing by and not opposing is good enough to qualify as “support” for the vast majority.

There’s no need to analyze every Republican individual. They joined a group with a platform and an agenda, and their numbers give them power in a representative democracy. Do we rate Nazis that joined the party just for the economic opportunities as any less Nazi than the racists?

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Republicans be like: I’m not fascist. I just vote for fascists and support fascist policies.

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No, all Republicans (whether you’re talking about politicians or voters) are not neo-Nazis.

Words mean things, and blurring their meanings in order to attack people whose politics you disagree with is bad, just as when right-wingers do it to attack progressives, leftists and liberals.

The Republican party as it stands is plenty bad enough without anyone having to resort to this kind of semantic FUD-throwing.

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