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One Bad Thing About Fighting Fascists Is What You Have to Do to Stop Them

Mike the Mad Biologist, on the weak tea proposals of the Democratic "leadership" in Congress are proposing to prevent a government shutdown.

The proposals seem to be weak tea that would benefit the Republican Party more than the Democratic Party, by doing such things as pushing cuts beyond the midterms with a promise of "consideration" for making them permanent.

To quote not-Tallyrand, "This is worse than a crime, it is a mistake." 

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It was pretty obvious rank-and-file Democrats would have to fight our own party to make them take an actual stand.

This also demonstrates the internal incoherence of party leadership. Their plan has been to let everything go to shit and hope voters figure out who is responsible. Never thought we would see accelerationist moderates and centrists, but here we are. Protecting Republicans from their own stupidity by preventing things from going to shit is the exact opposite of what leadership has decided to do.

That said, the larger problem is that the Democratic leadership, such as it is, still hasn’t internalized that the Republican Party is fascist. That does matter, as once you accept your opponents are fascists, you realize that there will be costs to be paid to stop them. There already have been people hurt, in one way or another, by this regime, and there will be more no matter what we do, until the regime is stopped. And the act of stopping them is going to result in American Carnage, one way or another. Hopefully, it will be less carnage than more and those responsible for it will bear the greatest cost, but it could get very bad–and far worse than a few months of healthcare subsidies (as murderous as that will be). To stop fascists, you actually have to stop them, not work on healthcare policy.

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The Democrats proposal in the Senate is to extend the Obamacare subsidies beyond the midterms.

Not roll back their repeal, just extend them for a year or so, because the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) is terrified of drawing a line in the sand and fighting a senile fascist.

This is beyond pathetic.