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If I was a fascist, I'd vote Dem - fascism just gets more traction with liberals in the Waffle House, and Dems are utterly ineffective at actually doing anything to stop fascism anyway. It was Trump whipping the fascists into a froth while a lib was in the Waffle House that brought antifa into the streets - not Trump actually humiliating himself on a daily basis in the Offal Office.
Fascists just gets more from a Dem regime - the Dems are doing a fine job strengthening fascist institutions. If Pig City was being constructed under Trump, the resistance to it would be ten times stronger.
None of this means you are wrong, of course (you're not) - but if voting can stop fascists it simply means the political institutions aren't ready to hand power over to them just yet. They are working on it, though.
Accelerationism works both ways, I suppose, but there legitimately are fascists in the republican party.
Doesn't matter. The actual fascists doesn't matter. The thing to be concerned about isn't the fascists themselves - what matters is the liberals that will hand power to the fascists if their precious status quo is threatened enough.
The thing about fascists that nobody except leftists seem to understand is that fascists serve a very distinct purpose in the classical liberal nation-state - they don't exist in a vacuum as some kind of "aberration". Fascism cannot exist without threatened capitalists funding them. Fascism cannot exist without liberals handing power to them to maintain their precious "Law & Order."
There is no such thing as "grass-roots fascism" - it's all coming from above.
"the actual fascists don't matter" .......There's no way you just typed that in good faith.
Lol! It's quite hysterical - the one minute I'm arguing with people who don't believe anything in the US could possibly be fascist, the next I'm arguing with people who believe fascism can be stopped through voting.
No - the fascists don't matter as far as your actual vote is concerned. You can't "establish" fascism through voting. How much power the fascists get depends completely on the political establishment regardless of how the voting goes. You've had four years of Biden and the fascists haven't grown any weaker, have they?
When you vote for a liberal you are basically voting for them because they pinky-swore that they won't hand more and more power to the fascists (never mind them actually doing something about the fascists because they won't) - but they don't need your permission to do so. You have to understand that they, being political elites, will inevitably be incentivized to do so.
There's a good reason we call US "formal" politics a glorified "good cop/bad cop" routine.