Opposition builds as parents’ group stokes nation’s culture wars.
  • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world
    1142·
    9 months ago

    How the fuck have we gotten to the point where pretty much any group with Liberty, Patriot, Freedom, etc in the name is straight-up fascist?

    Furthermore, how the fuck can these groups claim to be pro-freedom while banning books, abortions, trans people, etc?

    WE. ARE. FUCKED.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
      52·
      9 months ago

      Also anything like “Americans for _” is probably an astroturf group of a few rich fucks

    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.world
      47·
      9 months ago

      They’ve always done that: the Nazis were not the least bit socialist. Just pull words that poll well and make it up from there.

      • fubo@lemmy.world
        14·
        9 months ago

        Please support the Christian Peace Freedom Society! Send money and impressionable youths.

      • schema@lemmy.world
        9·
        9 months ago

        There actually were social wings in the NSDAP before the 1930s, but they have been eradicated and only the name remained.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
      14·
      9 months ago

      How the fuck have we gotten to the point where pretty much any group with Liberty, Patriot, Freedom, etc in the name is straight-up fascist?

      I mean, we did lean pretty heavily into jingoism, nationalism and anti-intellectualism for, like, the last 70-80y. As a consequence we’ve trained several generations of people to respect symbols more than the ideas that define our country. So uh, yeah, this is pretty much the expected outcome.