"Progressives should not make the same mistake that Ernst ThƤlmann made in 1932. The leader of the German Communist Party, ThƤlmann saw mainstream liberals as his enemies, and so the center and left never joined forces against the Nazis. ThƤlmann famously said that ā€˜some Nazi trees must not be allowed to overshadow a forestā€™ of social democrats, whom he sneeringly called ā€˜social fascists.ā€™

After Adolf Hitler gained power in 1933, ThƤlmann was arrested. He was shot on Hitlerā€™s orders in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944."

  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    If anything, letting Democrats win the next few major elections could spell doom for the Republican party as a whole, and give us a chance to introduce some actual competition to the Democratic party.

    This will never happen. The replacement party will be fascist. The Republican Partyā€™s fascism doesnā€™t exist because of ā€œbrainwashingā€ or ā€œconmen,ā€ it exists because fascism rises from decaying Capitalism. If you donā€™t get rid of the Capitalism, the conditions for fascism remain.

    That means we need to abolish the electoral college, introduce universal mail-in voting, defeat all right-wing disenfranchisement efforts, and introduce ranked-choice voting to all elections. These are radical changes that will take a lot of work to accomplish, and that will face a lot of opposition.

    Under Democrat leadership, these things are possible. Under Republican leadership, weā€™ll be lucky if we still have elections.

    The Democrats will never work against their donors. This will never happen.

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        That part. They know where weā€™re going, the only difference as far as I can see is some prefer it slower, to keep from spooking the populace, and others are willing to slaughter any part of the populace that resist.

        One day, the lambs will stop screaming.