Hoosier, Political Analyst, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Co-Host Muckrake Podcast, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, Political Adviser: The Change Campaign
Jared Yates Sexton is an American author and political commentator from Linton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. .. more
If we’re going to fight back and ultimately win this class war, it’s time we got familiar with how our politics actually work.
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That third thing is unsustainable long-term
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
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That third thing is unsustainable long-term
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Fascism is a collective breakdown. People are struggling and there has to be relief.
We can’t just sit back and hope. We have to fight.
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Unless we embrace collective action to address the material conditions that got us here, MAGA will birth a more extreme, even more fascist and Neo-Nazi movement.
We have to see voting is only the most basic part of democracy and work within ourselves and within community to put a stop to this.
This isn’t about elections. It’s about the need for recognition of the problem and a cultural sea-change. We can’t wait for heroes. It’s on us.
And, simultaneously, his cultists will desire each escalation.
He’s serious about destroying our rights and he’s serious about executing political enemies and critics. This is a real desire he is voicing. It’s not posturing.
The disease of fascism cannot stop on its own. There’s no amount of control or “safety” that sates their fear. That’s why the violence grows.
This has been festering our whole lives and even before. Ignoring that fact only makes this crisis worse.
Each time he escalates in his fascist positions he is giving permission for them to get worse and for the environment to grow more and more dangerous.
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Calling for the execution of political enemies is an escalation and it makes unchecked fascist violence a reality.
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And here’s the thing: fascists become more and more violent when they feel cornered.
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Something to remember as we wait for a probably doctored and scrubbed “Epstein Files” report.
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It’s using fascist tools and thinking you’re fighting fascism. Stop.
It’s a systemic failure.