Was it worth it to the GreedOverPatriotism people in America.

[Funtatlaguy]

Much has been said and written about how the decline happened.
A right wing media framework that started with Rush and the Rush imitators on radio.
Then, of course, Fox News on tv and Breitbart online, etc. etc.
Lying, manipulating, and manufacturing political scenarios and propaganda to create a good vs evil, us vs them narrative.
They made a lot of money to destroy our two party system.
They got a lot of power.
They got (in their minds) a lot of prestige.
And they offered their followers the moral high ground constantly berating what was once properly called “the loyal opposition”. For their lies and campaigns of disinformation to work, they had to appeal to the very worst in humanity. Use what they saw as outright and latent bigotry from at least 40% of the population to Make those with different skin colors, sexuality, religions or no religion, etc. into horrible (not just different) people.
Their goal was to make Democrats and the Democratic Party into something horrendously vile rather than just a different way of governing but still with the same goals of a prosperous USA.

So, they got what they wanted.
They got their two Americas.
But they won’t stop there. They now want only one.
A white nationalist evangelical theocracy run by an autocracy.
I’m not sure how that can be avoided.
So, I have gone back and rewatched all of the Handmaids Tale episodes.
Will America become Gilead in 20, 30, or 40 years?
I no longer see this as an impossibility.
I hate these people for ruining my country.

[Walleye]

1. I have yet to see the radical left agenda they keep talking about

[Funtatlaguy]

2. There is none. Straw man they set up to rally their troops against.

[Walleye]

3. Like antifa, mythical. It's funny the proud boys thought they would be fighting antifa on January 6

There’s a real danger in believing your own bullshit

[Funtatlaguy]

4. Goebbels would be so impressed by their propaganda machine.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

6. Antifa is not mythical.

[Walleye]

8. It's size and power is mythical

[Just A Box Of Rain]

10. Depends where one lives and the size of the Antifa cells in one's community.

They stir a hell of a lot of shit in some places.

For example, the progressive mayor of Berkeley, one of America's most progressive cities, has called for Antifa to be declared a violent criminal gang, and therefore subject to CA's anti-gang laws due to their violence.

These are not fans of liberal democracy.

[Walleye]

11. I guess there aren't that many of them here on the East Coast. I hate violence, all kinds

[Just A Box Of Rain]

12. I lived in Berkeley. Antifa created a lot of violent chaos there.

People at legitimate protests absolutely hated it when Antifa showed up. They are bad news.

[Walleye]

13. Yet the right wing paints it like antifa Is our maga army

[Just A Box Of Rain]

14. Merifully, they are few in number.

They don't like liberal democracy or the Democratic Party anymore than the much larger MAGA army does, however.

Those who know them, understand they are bad news.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. They want that last piece of cookie...

[durablend]

9. And big business...

Relentlessly complains that workers have no business getting that half a cookie ("NOBODY WANTS TO WORK!" )

[pwb]

7. America has always been great.

Fuck them that think and say other. Freedom and Liberty is for all. Judgment comes back to those who do.

[GoodRaisin]

15. Yes, absolutely. Those people don't give a damn about the trail of corpses they leave behind

as long as they keep raking it in for themselves.

That much should be pretty clear to everyone by now. It isn’t, but it should be.