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Who here still thinks republicans should be allowed to vote and hold elected office and write and pass laws?
Show of hands?
Great, everyone who raised their hand deserves this shit. Everyone wants to hate on Republicans, but when it comes to the voting booth, everyone defends them to the death. Well this is what you get. But DeMoCrAcY is more important than anything and everything, right?
Yeah let's ban half the country from voting I'm sure that will solve all of your problems. Jesus christ what a shitty take
Democracy is bad when I don't get what I want. Interesting take.
Did you just unironically quite Marx to bolster your point lol.
Even non-marxists agree that much of Marx's analysis of capitalism is true
Much of the self evident and obvious "analysis" maybe. I am sure there is a lot of basic true statements in Mein Kampf. It's the rest that's the problem.
The person is quoting Marx to argue that we shouldn't have democracy. That isnt the "analysis" non-marxists will agree with. Well, neo-nazis might, but I doubt that's who you meant.
The quote itself makes little sense and doesn't provide any insight. It's just a statement without any reasoning behind it. It only provides "value" to those who see Marx as an authoritative philosophical figure, which is pretty much just commies.
But it's not criticising democracy (as in government representative of the people), it's criticising 'democracy' (the type that exists in most of the world), which generally limits true change that would harm the ruling classes
Democracy is the least worst political system devised so far, and that isn’t really high praise for it. Certain political ideologies are a literal existential threat not just to certain groups, but literally everyone on earth. It is reasonable to marginalize them to oblivion. Germany bans Nazis for this reason, and the modern Republican Party is goose-stepping to the same song. They are an existential threat, and do not deserve representation at any level.
I get why you think like this, but it's just impossible. You can't just ban everything bad, especially something around half the population support(ed). You think those people will just go bend over and shut up? They already believe the other side is evil and hates them
Come on, you play right into their bullshit propaganda with that message. If they go low we don't stoop to their level. We do not win elections by removing voting rights for those we disagree with - that is an authoritarian tactic.
"sure, we let fascism run rampant over society, but that was the respectable thing to do"
there isn't really any 'nobility' in 'taking the high road' while marginalized communities continue to get owned and killed. Trans kids are being targeted, women are being targeted, BIPOC are being targeted.
what good is civility? authoritarian leftism is the only way to get results
Using authoritarianism is a fast track to ensuring that new generations of people see leftism as the enemy, if they don't already feel that way.
Taking away agency of people doesn't create lasting social systems; the masses aren't inspired to uphold the values by fear of consequence alone. People en mass will never accept being told what to do if they feel it takes away their agency. If anything you only breed resistance and contempt for your system of choice.
Who would you even trust to have such power? How could they be expected to uphold their values? How do you know that authoritarian power can't/won't be corrupted? Are you going to allow the murder of others if it cast as 'just' in the eyes of that power?
Authoritarianism had its hour, and in that time blighted all it touched. If it weren't for authoritarian leftists muddying the waters of the term 'Communist', Id imagine we'd have seen a lot more societies adopting those ideas instead of equating 'communism' with authoritarianism and rejecting it outright
You're entirely correct in your first sentence. I don't support the left despite it sharing the majority of my values.
If I were to generalize, I would say the right is just stupid. But the left has been becoming more and more dangerous with the rise of approval for authoritarianism and "ends justify the means" approach.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
For 'authoritarian leftism' to work (at least in theory), the proletariat need to be united. You can't just have a revolution that half the population oppose and expect to have a successful country
What? Of course they should be allowed to vote, if you don't like it, leave the US
Gotta be a troll, right?
I personally think it doesn't suddenly stop being "democracy" because you decided to make laws about disallowing people who are trying to dismantle democracy and replace it with authoritarianism to participate in democracy, because they're obviously participating in bad faith.
I don't think you should lose voting rights for felonies. I think you should lose voting rights for trying to dismantle the state and remove hard-fought for citizens rights. But maybe I'm a crazy person for thinking that a lot of these people are pretty dumb motherfuckers, and for the pretty dumb motherfuckers, its pretty easy to prove that they're acting in bad faith and to deny them voting rights until they get their ass educated accordingly.
I'm with you, at this point it doesn't make sense to let literal fucking terrorists be involved in democracy, because it's already no longer democracy when they're threatening you at the voting booth with their guns so you "vote right."
Are they participating in bad faith or are they acting in line with their class interests?