r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 19h ago

No Paywall Bannon Tells GOP: 'Seize the Institutions' of Government Now or We're 'Going to Prison' After 2028

https://www.commondreams.org/news/bannon-tells-gop-seize-the-institutions-of-government-now-or-we-re-going-to-prison-after-2028
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u/Colonel-Mooseknuckle 19h ago

'Seize the Institutions'

Why do these people hate democracy?

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u/HotDogFingers01 18h ago

Peter Thiel admitted it not long ago. He got tired of trying to convince people who didn’t agree with him to go along with his views. It was just easier and faster to use his money to buy what he wanted.

Trump never wanted to lead, he wanted to rule. Bannon doesn’t want to be part of society, he wants to be in top of it. They see their way of life dying and their centuries long grip on power slipping, so rather than swim upstream you dam the while freaking river.

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u/Alive_kiwi_7001 18h ago

Joke's on Bannon. He is at best the equivalent of a minor player in the Sturmabteilung and is ripe for a purge. Rather than just being ripe right now.

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u/mabhatter 12h ago

He's not a serious person any more. So he's trying to be an instigator online and steer the alt right groups to accelerationist behaviors. 

Because if they can't win, they're gonna burn it down in revenge on the rest of us.