How a country slides into despotism, the 1946 short film version

I honestly don’t get all this freaking out. Hello, you’ve already gone through 8 years of full-on fascism with the Cheney/Rove administration, and that was the real thing - no opposition, propaganda on all networks, crackdown on minorities and scientists, worshiping uniforms, militarized policing, the lot. This guy is a clown in comparison, he’s less popular at the start than Cheney’s puppet was at the end and doesn’t even know what he’s supposed to be doing. He’s less likely to make you wear a brownshirt than to let you smoke a joint in the White House.

Calm the fuck down, in 4 years you’ll have plenty of chances to show him for the idiot he is. Sharpening progressive candidates (for President, for Congress, for State, all the way to school boards) is a much better use of your time than branding your “Gran Torino” neighbour a Nazi.

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