Another particular moment in the history leaps out at me

[solarbird]

For the far right, It’s always been about eradicating everyone else. Starting with the queers, sure – but not ending there.

Yeah, that brownshirt wanna-be at CPAC reminded everybody about that, but for the fundamentalists who took over the GOP – who are still fundamentalists but are now coequally fascists – it’s always been about eradication. They said so themselves.

“It’s very naive to think that there’s a peaceful co-existence today, and the bottom line is, it’s either us or them.”

Billy Falling, Christian Voters League, in 1992

The problem has always been getting people they weren’t directly targeting to believe them when they said it. Gods know I tried, because I knew. And the reason I knew is I listened to them talking amongst themselves, to each other. Not the watered-down slide-in-sideways crap they said in their more carefully guarded external-propaganda moments.

The stuff they told themselves.

They meant it. They still do. And we won last time, and we can do it again.

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