Nazis really believe that it’s all the fault of the Jews. Get rid of the Jews, get rid of all your problems.
It sounds stupid because it is stupid.
(and evil. let’s not forget evil.)
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Other people have chimed in with the answer, but it’s always a good time to watch this:
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Thankfully that hateful outlook doesn’t represent the vast majority of the modern GOP.
(They blame Mexicans.)
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See the problem is they’re only really worried about the word “nazi”.
Cryptofascists and dog whistle racists have plausible deniability. Alt right trolls waving swastikas, but often more obscure white power symbols. Can be dismissed as just joking and thus become “fine people”.
But the explicit “I used to run the Nazi party” Nazi who keeps going “no I’m totally a nazi!” associates them too closely with something (fucking Nazi’s) that most people acknowledge as bad and indefensible. Even the other less open Nazis don’t want to be called Nazi’s.
You cant spin it. Or accuse critics of being the real racists. When the topic of discussion is actual, god damned Nazi’s.
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Evil makes you stupid.
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Yes, love the whole voting series. I am sold on the idea of voting for everyone you want to win, and apply your vote until there is a majority winner.
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ORLY?
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Every time I see one of these stories, I go back and further look at the people running/in office where I live, and it’s never my people. I’ve got some beefs with my people from time to time, but never anything like this or Roy Moore or the likes.
I often wonder am I a not looking hard enough, or do I need to move somewhere with a base of people completely unlike me, and convince some friends to do the same? Because I can’t seem to figure out a better solution.
Only around half of the 3rd District can really be thought of a “suburban Chicago”. By the time you get down to Lockport and Romeoville, you’re really in rural Illinois. (Though Lockport is a very cool place for anyone into hydraulic engineering.)
Before we get too far into the “silly/despicable GOP” narrative, let’s not forget that in 1986 LaRouchite candidates won the Democratic nominations for Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor in Illinois. (And there have been LaRouchies getting nominated as Democrats in other states as well, eg the 2000 Wyoming Senate race.)
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Fringe candidates often seek out party nominations even from parties they don’t match with particularly well. It’s both an attempt to get money to back their politics. And an attempt to legitimize themselves. You see them most often with 3rd parties or situations like this where it’s an uncontested race. Because it’s easy to slip in there.
But more concerted effort happen too.
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In Canada, guys like this would run openly and honestly … as Libertarians. /s
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The major parties need to trademark their names and iconography and treat candidates for office like franchisees. Every office, every election, you need a new franchise license.
Oh, and we also need to treat them like the private organizations they are, stop using public funds to pay for their primary process, and give no official public recognition to their existence.
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That Congressional district’s boundaries look gerrymandered to create a “safe” district for one party. And it sits next to the Illinois 4th district, which is pretty much the poster-child for gerrymandering.
Absolutely craptastic opposition candidates – or no opposition candidates at all – are what you get when you create districts that are engineered to be winnable by only one party.
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Eh, there are arguments in both directions on how to run primaries. But I think any of this would just be tinkering around the edges of a fundamentally poor system. The US system of government has far to many veto points, and a lot of poorly representative democracy 1.0 elements. We know how to do better, and we should, but… well there is a lot of inertia, but see the point about too many vetoes. One nazi losing a general election exceedingly badly rather than just a republican loosing badly is irritating, but not an actually meaningful problem. Far worse is… well… look at the news.
Have to laugh a little though. The solution is to make political parties MORE like McDonalds?
See, this is what I’ve been talkin about. If Republicans=nazis, and libertarians=nazis, then “nazis have no right to speak” has a way, way different meaning.
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Faulty syllogism much?
I reject not only your fallacious premise, but also the implication that anyone here actually believes either part of it.
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This dude is an actually nazi! He self-identifies as a white supremacist and he’s a Republican. If the GOP and if some libertarians don’t want to be branded as white supremacists, maybe they should stop aligning with them and stop pushing nazi-lite policies.
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Yeah, well, they did, and look where that got us. I’m more and more in favour of rule by lottery with criminal prosecution at the end of your term if you’re shit at the job…
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Here’s a thought: if Republicans are worried about Nazis and Klansmen and other white supremacists damaging their brand then maybe they should try to figure out why their party is so appealing to white supremacists.
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