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Similar to what @jbouie.bsky.social wrote about, here’s more pretending Democrats want a dictatorship in order to create a GOP dictatorship, this time from Claremont Institute americanmind.org/salvo/the-po...
Alito wants ppl to think Dems want “complete power”. But Ds just want to maintain pluralism&ability for parties to compete fairly. Pretending Ds want total control is a way to convince people that the Republican power grab is in self-defense. From @jbouie.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/o...
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the striking thing about all of these breathless declarations of a post-constitutional order is that none of them ever actually describe with any substance the injustice or injury being done to them. it's taken as self-evident that they are being trampled by dictatorship.
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it is almost as if the injustice is simply that they have to share power with people they hate.
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Extremely “if we can’t own people, we become slaves” energy
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Democrats and the people who make up their coalition are illegitimate people, and if anything happens that is good for them, they must have orchestrated it by illegitimate means
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"Conservativism consists of exactly one proposition..." We're trying to bind the elect and protect the undeserving; of course this is experienced by the unjust as evil—we *are* trying to take something from them.
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There's that old saying, when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression
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They don't want to share power with people who want to share power.
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Or whom they regard as non-people...
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And their own crimes will be prosecuted
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Forget "share power," they're mad that they just have to look at us and acknowledge we are human.
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There are no greys with some people.
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The concept that their having a say in society might depend on their forming a coalition to create a majority through compromise is utterly hateful to them, and they're willing to burn down the whole world to avoid the ego injury.
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“The people who very recently kept electing Republicans governor of Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont want absolute power”
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"But the preacher sed we wuz under a salt."
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That's what the outgroup du jour is all about. Outgroup exists, therefore "it's" being shoved down your throat, thus you need to support conveniently only Republicans to fight back.
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Statements of belief to the faithful.
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They also say Biden has brought America "to its knees" and I wonder where they have stuck their brain, because they are driving without a navigation system.
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In the absence of context I’d see this passage and assume it was about capitalism.
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does anyone even finish these articles?