It is important to not waste your life hating or fearing conservatives. Disregard their entire-ass existences, shun them, cut them out of your lives, piss in their wheaties, and fight them in whatever ways you can, but do not waste any more of your precious life than they’ve wasted of their miserable own. I’ll talk about the hate in another post; this one is about the fear.
Fascists loooove fear. It literally makes their cocks hard. Picture anime villains with no eyebrows and rippling tongues, reaching for their crotches while stylized schoolgirls are spraying tears like sprinklers. Well, the only thing they deserve out of you is blue balls. Don’t give them what they want.
But aside from what’s right and wrong, deserved or not, fear is an element of how we got here today. Again, I’ll talk about it more on a later post, but evil benefits from the surrender of good, right? Common sense. Aside from shooting their goo, it’s the reason they’re so invested in fear. Because it’s a game and a strategy for them, a certain amount of the threats they’ve made have to be a bluff. Of course there are genuine beasts among them who are not bluffing, we must do what we can to keep a good defense and offense running concurrently, but on the whole? Conservatives are not monsters.
The majority of the people who voted for ShitTrickler & Dickslime were not fans of every last policy they have promoted. Some were lulled by a sense of cultural identity – they liked the branding, thought this was a vote for how america should look. But when it comes to actually looking people in the eye and hurting them? They may find it does not suit them. Many of the voters – especially those who had any chance of swinging – were just voting against inflation. Life got economically worse for them and they figured it’s time to vote for the guy who wasn’t in office when it happened – which is why this country swings on a pendulum. Many people voted for Biden with the exact same motivation, not giving a fuck about human rights – just their bottom dollar – and showing their ass about how little they understand fucking anything.
All that’s to say, if they were really going to try to make death camps in the USA, or breeding pens for womb-having chattel, they’d be shit out of luck, because most of the people who voted for evil are not as evil as all that. You can write fucked-up laws until your hands turn into ashes, but you need actual monsters to enforce them. Who is going to be willing to do that? Some tiny selection of fuckos, who will not be nearly enough to overcome the opposition.
Some bad things will happen. Some people will die, and I hate that and am not trying to minimize that in any way. They shouldn’t have to die and I would proudly shoot two republicans in their unthinking faces for every one person who dies to their policies. But we were sold mortal terror as part of a political game between Evil and Evil Lite, and the reality is not going to look like that.
It is vitally important that you feel this is still the land of Dunkin Donuts and strip malls. This is not a dark fantasy novel. The reality in this country is not the spank material of swastika fetishists. It is where your aunt martha is a shithead about gay people but does not want to see people die – is not interested in killing them. She is a shithead about abortion, but she just blithely assumes anyone can get an exception if they really need to, you don’t need to codify that in law. Or assume that exceptions are never needed, some shit like that.
They are fools, they are hateful, and they will get some people killed, but they are not demons, they are not a mindless zombie legion that will sweep over hills and valleys to murder you and everybody you love. They are just a bunch of shitty tools, a bunch of craven bullies having a laugh. But they are human, they have something sort of vaguely resembling hearts in there somewhere, and when it matters, enough of them will abstain that the real monsters will not be able to achieve their worst excesses.
And we are not without protection from those that are truly that bad! We have people who will fight for us. We will fight for us. And there are powerful state governments that will step up to curtail much of the shit that comes down those pipes. I encourage anybody who is pining for Canada right now to consider Washington, Oregon, New York, or California first. It ain’t paradise, but neither is Canada, and they make it very hard to become a citizen up there – or even a tolerated resident.
They are not going to get us here. It’s not gonna fucking happen. They will do harm, it will be sad, but for many of us, life will barely change at all. You can, if you pull yourself through the shocking wretchedness of this moment, find a way to live, and possibly even to thrive. Those of you that can’t make it on your own, look for allies, because you do have them.
And don’t imagine that Bob Utah is coming to personally kill you and turn your trans nephew into a concubine. Fight them up and down the line, but don’t be paralyzed by grotesquely inflated fears.
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one example of this is book bans. they can ban books in schools, but can they ban them on amazon? it ain’t happenin. bezos has the billionaire veto and wants to maximize sales. these guys can be bought for the price of fucking cheeseburger. politicians in the US are cheaper than sex workers and nowhere near as ethical.
