There is one common denominator across all of these radical left movements, including National Socialism.
Dialectical materialism. It gives people permission and even academic approval to embrace public policy contradictions and believe in fictional futures. It literally means “Mind reality”, AKA…
“My truth”.
I was still in my teens at the time, but I can assure that you are incorrect. There were plenty of people who understood Democrats at the time, and they would not have been surprised at all. My dad, for one, would have likely told you, even on the morning of September 12, 2001, that he would rather have Bin Laden living next to him than a Democrat politician. Now, if you’d been in a room full of Democrat supporters, you may be correct.
I’m sure there have been people who can read the tea leaves going way back, but they have always been a fringe part of our social consciousness.
Part of what MAGA is facilitating is the rejection of the propaganda machine that’s been stringing the population along this whole time. We’re in an exciting new era of independent media, which also means we’re in an exciting new era of propaganda, as well.
That’s one of the problems Maine Democrats seem to be struggling with. They are desperate for their narrative to be believed, which means that they have gone to extraordinary lengths to control the information as much as possible.
Most recently, our local police turned off comments on their social media posts. Nearly every Democrat or democrat-led public agency is behaving similarly. Our newspapers were all bought up by Soros nonprofits, and they only reluctantly cover the rapidly degrading conditions.
The internet is proving to be a major thorn in their side, as there is currently no way to stop Mainers from drawing attention to the glaring issues in our government. School Board meetings are being viewed by more people than ever, as are city council meetings. Bills are becoming more widely known, like the one just introduced to lessen the penalties for selling cocaine in Maine, or the one introduced to end life sentences.
Without fail, Democrats say all kinds of positive-sounding things, but you don’t find out what they actually mean until the policy gets introduced.
Maybe politics right now is about “Populism,” or the idea of normal people vs the elite. And the left and right are defining “normal” and “elite” differently, in an attempt to excite and motivate people who weren’t political in the past into voting.
Or maybe it’s Step 2 of the plan Yuri warned us about. And politics right now is about brainwashed Manchurian Candidates dismantling our social norms and cultural institutions right before a period of upheaval.
I think there is truth to both possibilities.
I agree. Political definitions are murky and ever shifting. I also agree that there might be new classifications for modern political divisions, since left/right or liberal/conservative don’t really cut it anymore.
I also think the political division in USA are at least partly very different to the ones we have here. Or at least steeper, but that might be because of the two party system.
It is on both sides. AIPAC is in control. How many of these “MAGA” politicians have an allegiance to a foreign country?
I’m certainly convinced that Israel holds an inordinate amount of influence in American politics, but I’m not convinced they are the puppet masters. Plain old corruption explains the situation better, and I’d be unsurprised to learn that Mossad and the CIA have been behind a lot of it.
I’m increasingly lumping neoconservatives in with woke Democrats. Despite their policy differences, they seemed to be rowing in the same direction for a very long time on all of the most impactful domestic and foreign policies.
Cheney supporting Harris illustrates this well.
MAGA is a rejection of both.
Hopefully, a 3rd World political and economic approach won’t result in a 3rd World nation status.
Economically it won’t, but many parts of the USA have conditions that are already third world. I would certainly classify Lewiston as being governed in similarly corrupt ways for similar purposes of wealth extraction. Maine as well.
Today we have open air drug use in public spaces, criminals operating with little concern for consequence because the consequences are minimal, rampant violence, politicians who cannot answer basic questions like “Why did mass shooting funds get distributed to unrelated immigrant and prisoner nonprofits?”, abysmal literacy rates, terrible schools, diminishing hospital capabilities, and absolutely no talk of policy course correction.
I don’t think we’re really missing much except another six years of social rot, or however long it takes to run its course or, hopefully, make the kind of abrupt turn I believe voter ID with citizenship and residency verification would bring.
White Supremacy seems to be very inefficient at making violent crime rates equal
White supremacy is in such short supply in Maine that most of the hand-wringing is done over out-of-state white supremacists who meddle in Maine affairs or, one time, stand in Kennedy park while hiding their identities.
They were all in good shape, which seemed rather odd for New England. It’s a good thing our federal government would never stage a fake demonstration to make people believe the state is riddled with Nazis.
It’s working, too. The most popular comment on a headline in our Soros newspaper today was calling Maine’s most popular politician a Nazi.
If believing men and women are different and being white makes someone a Nazi, people should remember that Maine was once the most peaceful state in the USA and had the best public schools in the USA before Democratic Socialism was implemented.
These mentally ill rejects are so insufferably stupid it boggles the mind, but conservatives are apathetic cowards and will never do anything about it so…oh well
Mostly peaceful protest at PA Governor Shapiros govornors mansion.
Currently no clear or particular motive.
Well, to give them some credit, we did just elect Donald Trump in the face of history’s greatest smear campaign, who is now taking bold actions that were considered a conservative pipe dream a few years ago.
Locally we’re pissing off the government enough for them to do everything they can to pretend our concerns are either not valid or borne out of malice. The change in public comment policy I linked above is clearly geared towards parents who are speaking out at school board meetings.
@doogie Bill Maher is a Nazi now, didn’t you know? Or maybe he’s always been a secret Nazi this whole time. It is the only possible explanation for his recent criticism of the left.
@SkyzykS Yeah that’s mostly peaceful alright. So are parts of Lewiston, where the topography and distance from downtown makes it so gunshots are never heard.
Can people here give some insight on this?
It seems a classical way of increasing authoritarianism. ”To defend the free speech we must control the free speech”. It’s like the germany’s new hate speech law, just other way around (and worse).
You are not understanding the American notion of free speech. This is an issue of stipulations on federal funding, not preventing Harvard from using its own resources to manufacture Marxist revolutionaries who want to reshape American society.
Deporting green card holders who are here to organize social arson is not a free speech issue, either, since they are not citizens. Would Finland appreciate it if I lied on my immigration documents, then showed up in Helsinki to advocate for the overthrow of your government while shouting “Death to Finland”?
Maybe Finland would, but most countries would not tolerate that from a guest. If a guest came into my home and then started explaining why I’m an asshole and they need to burn my house to the ground, I’d kick them right out. If my son did that, he’d get different treatment. It’s the same idea but with citizenship as the test for special treatment from the federal government.
Trump is not limiting Harvard’s ability to run their university into the ground, hire as many Marxist professors as they want, or churn out social justice warriors deeply lacking in critical thinking skills. They just aren’t using our tax money to pay for it anymore.
Harvard will be fine, and American citizens can still go around shouting “Death to America” all they want.
I hope they come for Bates College in Lewiston next. There is a group called Project Relief Maine that operates out of there to relentlessly terrorize my barber and other people who’ve spoken publicly at government proceedings. They illegally vote in our town elections, even placing a Bates student on our school board. That person’s gone, but now we have a Bates College gender studies professor on our school board.
Every member of Lewiston’s congressional delegation to our capital Augusta is affiliated with Bates, either as an employee or a student. We’ve been their little laboratory for their wild social visions dreamt up in the halls of academia, and it hasn’t been good for the town at all. Their students get very preferential treatment from the local police, and have for a long time.
My friend appears to have uncovered a local police coverup of a serious drunk driving crash the other week. The story was first broke by our schizophrenic scanner monitor, and photos of the very serious crash were shared online. Wrong-way down a one-way with New Hampshire plates.
Fast forward a few weeks, and nobody has been booked into the jail for an OUI, the crash report wasn’t present on the public database, and no details were being shared. My friend initiated a FOAA request, got a copy of the hand-written crash report and confirmed that at least 2, likely all 3 people in the offending car were Bates college kids, including a rugby player. All were under the age of 21, our legal drinking age.
The person they hit was seriously injured. Enough facts have been gathered and once the driver is confirmed Bates we will proceed to raise a stink about it, and our audience grows by the day. We’re basically citizen journalists and opinion columnists, since our Soros newspaper no longer does that stuff. It carries water for the government and furthers the narrative that things are great and conservatives are a problem.
Its something new every day here in the corrupt land of Democratic Socialism.
