That and the very serious consequences of challenging and failing. Schumer is a neoliberal conservative. They are as petty and vindictive as any other conservative. Failing can mean no committee positions or draft cosigners until they are gone.

Conservatives like Schumer are pure evil, even when they have a D next to their name. The risk sounds pretty intimidating. You have to know you have the votes before committing.

Schumer is a neoliberal. Neoliberals are conservatives. No amount of money or power is ever enough for a conservative. They are genuinely sick.

I just can’t see that happening without either serious deception or a serious threat from a 3rd party. The neoliberals have already proven they don’t give a shit about vote splitting and will happily lose to fascists rather than accept progressives, so I don’t think any 3rd party could ever be enough of a threat. That leaves only trickery and deception (or maybe a well timed bus wreck).

AOC would make a great replacement for Jeffries in the House. (Van Hollen would replace Schumer in the Senate)

Thank you for the excellent recommendations. I’ve been looking for a new line of books, and these sound like a good fit. It’s hard for me to imagine forgiving any conservatives right now. I think my anger for these overt comic book villains makes it hard to see alternative views of them, but I’d love to find some glimmer of hope that there is a peaceful solution to all this.

Kinda like using the word cringe to describe normal people telling conservatives to fuck off and die. Bro.

Wait. Are they different people?! WTF?

Jeez. I was about to say the opposite, that he fits the conservative xtian stereotype pretty well. But both statements look correct to me.

How so? My enemy is my enemy. I do not value the life of my enemy any more than they value mine. Bro.

I’m sorry about your loss of friends. Your comment about knowing exactly what your friend of 20 years would say in any situation and realizing he cannot be saved really resonates with me.

I also hope the other commenter (and Altemeyer) are right, although I have not read the book. I have a glimmer of hope for us, particularly after seeing the results of the midterms. But the fact that we’re having this conversation suggests we all know the fight is nowhere near done. Esoecially as long as billionaires exist.

Stay strong. You are not alone, as much as it may sometimes feel that way. The more people I talk openly with about these subjects, the more common experiences I find, even with people I would not have suspected felt similarly. All the advice to “find community” seems to be pretty accurate, albeit challenging.

I’ll respond to both of you here.

I have considered myself anti-authoritarian since I was a teenager in the 80’s. I was a “punk” who associated with a group of people who called ourselves SHARPS or Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice. I cringe at how silly that sounds now as I type that out, but I think it illustrates where our hearts were at the time. We absolutely did not think it was silly at the time. It was a violent response to a problem we had with racist skinheads being absolutely everywhere we wanted to be. I think this ideology saved us from a much worse fate, because we really did turn the tables over time by becoming a very violent problem for the racist skinheads.

I am from the south, just outside of a major city, but this ideology/response actually started somewhere up north and just spread overnight to us through punk shows (where racist skinheads were kicking everyone’s asses). My best friend at the time had his leg broken when he was attacked by skinheads outside of a club downtown one night, and that was the beginning for us. We were 14 when that happened, lying about our age and begging for rides from friends to get into punk shows. My group of friends would have become violent in response to the racists whether the SHARP ideology became available to us or not. Sadly, a couple of those friends grew up to become conservatives somehow. They are fucking dead to me and it hurts my soul to say that. But back then, we just absolutely overwhelmed the racists at shows and at school. We picked on them and bullied them every chance we could and when we could, we jumped them just as they jumped us before. It got to a point where they stopped showing up to punk shows entirely by the early 90’s

Anyway, that’s a lot of words to say I have always despised fascist bullies and I admit I may have a bit of a warped sense of what constitutes a “nazi”. I have given this so much thought that I may be guilty of overthinking it all. But, in 2020, watching my conservative colleagues become complete dickbags, I felt all that rage coming back. That is when I think I began to see all conservatives as nazis. It seems extremely obvious to me that nazism in the 40’s was just unchecked conservatism. Social distancing led me to retire from my career to just get away from conservatives. And things have only gotten worse with conservatism/nazism since then.

I have more to say, but this is already a really longwinded comment.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Fuck conservatives. They are all nazis in my book.

I am not implying she is a nazi. Roberts has been extra nice lately, if you haven’t noticed. Let me be more clear, the SIX nazis on the SCOTUS are panicking.

I often wear a shirt that says “The only good conservative is a dead conservative.” If asked about it by a non-Republican, I like to make it clear the shirt is also referring to centrists and neoliberals.

The Democrat Party is currently still led by a type of conservative called “neoliberals”. These are conservatives who pretend to hold some progressive views, but who only serve billionaire backers.

Schumer, Jeffries and every other conservative cockroach needs to be aggressively ejected from the party. Their AIPAC and Palantir receipts should be dealt with as bribes and they should be imprisoned.

So true. We need to handle conservatives as the deadly infestation they actually are.

MAGA was just a symptom of the much larger disease of conservatism. The disease has metastasized and is long overdue for a permanent cure.

Don’t believe conservatives when they pretend they are done. They are already regrouping. They will be back, and next time it will be much worse if we don’t eliminate this disease while we have the chance.

FUN FACT: Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. They will say absolutely anything to get the result they want in the moment. A conservative will lie about what they want for lunch if they think it will benefit them in some way. Trump is just a reflection of that fact.

Conservatism should be a disqualifier for any position of authority in any developed country.

As conservatives celebrate.

Damn right!