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   CedarTea (cedartea@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 23:34:48 JST CedarTea

   When the right wing conjures a boogeyman, the centrist instinct is to take a compromise position with it in the name of "pragmatism". They either believe the right must be acting in good faith, or in maintaining unity with the right. But over time, this act of reifying that boogeyman convinces them that it's real. And in an electoral realm, when you cede the ground to the boogeyman, it's not surprising that people go with the fascists who said they could protect you from them.

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     CedarTea (cedartea@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:29:53 JST CedarTea

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     When the fascists screamed bloody murder over migrants, the liberal response was not to fight them on it, but to show their own "toughness" on the border. And so, when people hear about the border, they think it *must* be a problem because both parties say so. And so they think "who is stronger on the border?"

     They will never think the dems are stronger on the border, no matter how many fascist border policies they adopt. Never.