I will not forgive

[BainsBane]

98. Self pity

The families ripped apart by immigration raids, those murdered or otherwise victimized by hate crimes, the tens of millions who may lose their health insurance at any point, and the the tens of thousands who will be killed as a result. That is what you consider self pity.

Self-pity and, more importantly, narcissism, are what prompted a group of privileged white men to refuse to vote for the party's nominee because they didn't get their way in the primary. It promoted them to eagerly participate in Kremlin and GOP propaganda campaigns designed to defeat Clinton and install a White Supremacist regime. It is what motivated them to take revenge on the poorest, most vulnerable Americans by ensuring a government that would undermine their rights, threaten, and even take their lives, would come to power. That self-entitlement is the entirety of their political worldview and means that even today they demonstrate more contempt for the groups targeted by hate crimes than the Nazis who perpetrate them. It is what prompted their eager collaboration with fascism, and it is what makes them fascists. Fascism is as fascism does.

You keep right on worrying about saving the White Supremacists and those who put them in power. I'll focus on the people they are trying to exterminate. I will not politically empower them to kill more. I will not recruit them them into the Democratic Party to undermine and disenfranchise the Democratic base, the very people those White Supremacists want to wipe off the face of the planet. That is not fighting fascism. It is legitimating it, adopting its goals and values. Whether such collaboration is motivated by political expediency, a shared resentment of women and people of color, or both, it is reprehensible.

You don't seem to be free of rage, only you focus it on me. I find it difficult to believe that has anything to do with fighting fascism. In fact, you seem determined that they not be held accountable or even criticized for their actions.