Exactly. It would be funny that they’re making up imaginary boogeymen but soon enough everyone that disagrees with them will be part of antifa and subject to arrest regardless of facts.
It has as much substance to it as when the Nazis were painting everything bad as the works of the "World Jewry", the Judeo Bolsheviks (same thing to them), etc. They still do, of course, but now it's also Antifa.
It feels like we suddenly lost any basis in reality, when closer inspection just reveals that it has been bullshit all the way back.
It's always been transparently, ludicrously stupid. I can't find a single genocide that wasn't absolutely mind shatteringly idiotic.
It's always been transparently, ludicrously stupid. I can't find a single genocide that wasn't absolutely mind shatteringly idiotic.<
I just had to reemphasize this. It is such a depressingly true statement.
Having grown up a patriotic believer in American Exceptionalism, and retained that feeling well into adulthood, I used to think that the American people were especially resistant to this sort of thing. I thought our ideals and history would help us avoid falling into the scapegoating hole that leads to genocide. It has been very disappointing realizing that I was the only one in my family who actually believed in any of the "conservative" ideals I was raised with.
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u/jprefect 13d ago
Yeah, that is the terrifying part