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AntiFascist

(13,646 posts)
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 02:38 PM Monday

The Far Right is now starting to declare Civil War, but we're not taking the bait... [View all]

and we shouldn't be surprised by this:

Trump has repeatedly identified the Left broadly as being lunatics and needing to be prosecuted for speaking out against him. Hegseth, the US Secretary of War (yes, that's his title now!), has identified Democrats as the "enemy within" who are really the primary enemies of America needing to be suppressed, while Trump sends Federal Troops to invade Democratic cities.

We need to take a step back and understand why this is happening. The oligarchs who have funded mouthpieces like Charlie Kirk and the MAGA movement and who are taking over social media, in addition to streaming and broadcast media, do not want a government that is run "by the people, for the people" because they see it as a threat to their way of life. They surely don't appreciate the Epstein investigations, and they continue to be paranoid about anyone who is socialist-leaning, like Mamdani, rising up and taking power away from their unregulated capitalists.

The wealthy oligarchs view the impoverished as useless citizens who may as well be euthanized, and unless the elderly have massive wealth they may as well die early because "we all have to die sometime." They feel that the promise of the American Dream should also die because capitalist slavery serves their purposes much better.

Does this make me sound like a raging Marxist? Well, I'm not. I believe in well-regulated capitalism and social programs for those who need an alternative. Also, please don't try to engage me in a debate about the advantages of Communism; it really is exhausting and not helping our cause at this point in time.

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