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solarbirdI wasn't sure I was going to archive this one, but here it is.
[IMAGE OF TWEETS: Dean Browning (MAGA, Pennsylvania) calls large-scale vaccination sites "concentration camps" with all that implies, quite intentionally.]
So many responses to this. First: the party that put up actual concentration camps is now accusing Biden of setting up "concentration camps" because... vaccination is bad. I guess. But it's worse than that.
The GOP - or at least the majority Trumpist wing - is now going to be about sabotage. Making things as much worse as possible at every turn.
I mean, obstructionism and sabotage have been guiding principles for a while - see Mitch "Grim Reaper" McConnell - but that was more about passive blocking than active destruction.
This is active destruction.
Until and unless they have power again, at which point it's more destruction, just a different kind, with bonus looting.
What's it about, though?
I wrote this up a while ago in another context - I wrote it up for here, actually. But I didn't post it here.
It's about "Our Country or No Country" becoming a core philosophy.
We rule, or we'll make sure there's nothing _to_ rule.
It was in a different context - in the context of people saying, "Christ, okay, fuck off forever then. Secession. Fine. Go."
But the core thought was the same: how do you deal with "we rule, or we destroy everything so there is nothing _to_ rule"?
I archived the original thread - that I didn't post - here, on Dreamwidth:
https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1784886.html
...but the answer is basically, "it has to cost them, to work this way. It has to cost a _lot_."
It has to cost power, first and foremost. They can't have power. Ever. At any level.
It has to cost money, secondarily. As locked out as possible.
It has to cost careers.
Fundamentally, it simply has to be _made_ to not work. Whatever that takes.
That's what we have for the next decade or so.
The light at the end of the tunnel is that a decent chunk of this is about baby boomer old age. Lots of them always thought the world began with them, and now that they're getting old, the world ends with them too.
Boomers mostly aren't the armed wing (MAGAt Provisional IRA), of course. Mostly - but by no means only - those are young fascists, radicalising each other with misogyny and racism. But they are the political wing (MAGAt Sinn Féin).
They're the voting mass making this possible.
But you can't wait for that. The more they succeed, the more the equation changes. Successful fascists means _more_ fascists, which is why this has to cost them so much at every opportunity.
It has to cost. Dearly. They don't get power, money, or decisions.
They're just _out_.
And they're out _forever_.
No redemption; no return.
Done.
Left alone, the Democrats mostly won't make that stick. They'll think of it as counter to democratic principles, because at some level they've never got it, and they literally never will. But they'll bend to pressure, because they mostly do.
Be that pressure. Every. Day.
Or it won't be over in ten years. It won't be over in twenty, either.
It goes until it gets _stopped_.
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Date: 2021-01-17 03:05 pm (UTC)This is something that at some point will stick in my head long enough to join the phrasebook for what's been going on. It's exactly on point.
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Date: 2021-01-17 07:33 pm (UTC)I've reserved a copy at the library.
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Date: 2021-01-17 07:37 pm (UTC)Link me?
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