I mean you can use them if you want to but I meant like, in general your mind is changeable

POV more like PIV amirite

POV* someone on lemmy is using POV incorrectly

* it’s yours. You’re the POV

Sat down for the glory of the empire

I figured you would not agree. I’m probably not going to change your mind on this in a forum thread if you don’t see the same pattern that I do in the historical and recent examples. I do appreciate hearing your thoughts on this matter so clearly though.

Nothing about the mind is truly immutable, though that change isn’t certain either. You may or may not become hopeful once again; or, most likely, a realist of some sort rather than a cynic. That is why we simply hope that it can happen for you.

Capitalists do these things, yes. My point is that the Republican party is much more friendly to Capitalists and their policies and much more influenced by them.

the drive for fascism is related to the ability for the capitalist class to continue to effectively control the population

You mean like through the media, where republicans are less truthful, own the means to control what news people see, and intervene (as on Twitter and Facebook) to prevent certain information from spreading? Or how Ronald Reagan repealed the fairness doctrine and vetoed its reinstatement?

Or do you mean through economic means, where republicans push to keep costs high for the poor and low for the rich (healthcare, tariffs, tax policy)?

Or maybe directly through force, like with ICE or historical examples like President Harding taking the side of the mining companies in the battle of blair mountain?

There is always a risk of fascism. My point is that fascist policies are implemented and acted upon far more often under R rule than D, and prosecuted more under D than R.

Fascism is when the capitalist class oversteps the legal boundaries and restricts the civil rights of the country, when bourgeois democracy is replaced with outright direct rule by capital.

Seems like democrats getting elected does help alleviate fascism then?

Also, what do you mean by “fighting it directly”?

That sounds amazing, but somehow our methods for achieving it always end up opposed.

If you don’t usually click video links this one is worth it, one of my all-time favorite videos and fairly short

You say this as if there is a conspiracy to control the outcome of the vote?

I don’t think they misinterpreted you at all then. They were saying that if they can enact meaningful change, your cynical worldview may become more hopeful in light of real progress.

Berniebros were right all along. Imagine the world where he won…

I’m not going to lie, as an outsider this always seems to be the case. Could you explain what you actually want and what you could see realistically happening if the fascists won?

I’ve always been a fan of the color red. Imagine if (let me dream) the republican party falls and the DSA can take red as their color against the establishment dems’ blue. Fighting on the red side would feel good then!

Syllabaries ftw