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Anyone read Tom Nichols' latest Atlantic article? Anyone understand why a former hippie punching, smug conservative gets to have a high profile, well paying media platform to tell all of us lefty types that Republicans have a "Nazi Problem"?

It's been a long while since I've posted something and there's so much awful sh*t going on that one tragedy doesn't mean more than others but the homicide of Rob Reiner and his wife by their son is as disgusting as it is tragic. Then I see that orange f√€& stick posts on troth social:

Going forward anytime a reporter asks a Democrat about the house passing the big bullshit bill, uniformly, the answer must start with saying the Republicans are the ones that passed the bill. Do. Not. Let. Republicans. Get. Away. With. It.

I've had a hard time recently with an old friend who's a conservative and a trump supporter. He doesn't understand why I'm angry with him and why our political differences should affect our friendship. He doesn't understand agreeing to disagree isn't an option anymore.

I want to share something and I would love to hear from others on this. This last week has brought up a very real sense that our country is becoming a fascist state. The last debris of any post war America is being washed away. Any America that I've known at least.

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I don't see how anyone can ignore it anymore. The decades of being able to sit on the sidelines with your head down while you earned a paycheck, paid bills and went on vacation are over I think. At least for me. I hope many of us will find some way to resist.

I want to share something and I would love to hear from others on this. This last week has brought up a very real sense that our country is becoming a fascist state. The last debris of any post war America is being washed away. Any America that I've known at least.

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I cycle through anger, fear, incredulity and wanting to act. I work in a very conservative area and I have to listen to conservatives share their thoughts such as they are. Some are full on maga and some are "moderate" but none of them see the actual dangers of their beliefs and Trump. ..

The "moderates" seem to think this is just a better America and go about their way displaying the same level of ignorance and obliviousness in their contentment now as they were when they were fighting and arguing with conspiracy and lies they regurgitated before the election...

I want to share something and I would love to hear from others on this. This last week has brought up a very real sense that our country is becoming a fascist state. The last debris of any post war America is being washed away. Any America that I've known at least.

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And bold resistance. It's not enough to criticize what's happening. We're well past the point where holding conservatives responsible matters. The system is too corrupted and the maga base have demonstrated they will not abide the law. I think there's going to have to be a real resistance...

We'll have to wait to see how things unfold further to get a handle on what tools we have to push back but if we have any chance to save some vestige of the kind of America we want I'm afraid that we're going to have to stop being the soft liberals conservatives accuse us of being.

I want to share something and I would love to hear from others on this. This last week has brought up a very real sense that our country is becoming a fascist state. The last debris of any post war America is being washed away. Any America that I've known at least.

Anyone paying attention the last 50 years have watched this slow moving train wreck happen. Along the way warnings and accusations from the left have been dismissed as hysterics but they've been proven correct. Only, maybe, history will acknowledge this. The only thing that matters now is courage..

We have a new president. He's an adjudicated rapist and a convicted felon and skated on a substantive case of inciting insurrection. We've fulfilled the destiny of our national karma and I can only hope we will find a way onto a better path after these next 4 years.

This holiday season I hope all my fellow liberals, progressives, leftists enjoy time with family and friends. It's important to savor this time as the last bit of calm before the tsunami of lies, propaganda division and hate take us over for the next 4 years. Merry Merry everyone!

I've watched the rightward creep of the Republican party since Reagan with the Democrats, in an attempt to stay relevant, follow along leaving the GOP nowhere to go politically but right into authoritarianism. So here we are. Dealing with right wing self serving toxic personalities.

One of the very few positives of the social media democratization of the news that has been a big reason for our disinformed and angry polarized public is people like David Brooks and Bill Kristol are finally marginalized to the bin of unimportant always wrong old white guys.

The state of things is such that people are desperately trying to blame Biden and the Ds for their tingling spidey sense that the country is failing when in truth it's the authoritarian enabling Republicans who've failed Americans and hate the Democratic institutions.

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