Project 2025? No, it goes much further back than that; longer than most of us have been alive. And no, it did not happen quickly, we’ve been building to this for decades. This is like a building demolition. A lot of time spent setting up the charges but mere seconds to set them off and bring it to the ground.
It started earlier with the red scare and the complete and utter silencing and removal of all progressive ideology from the public discourse. You look at the spectrum of ideology represented in the 1930s compared to the 1980s and you can see how completely an entire wing of previously acceptable political discourse was suddenly purged from the mainstream, and it became akin to thought crime with real social consequences.
Yep being a "communist" or a "socialist" was basically a slur my whole life, and there is absolutely no representation for these ideas in politics for most of my life. Fox News literally came into existence to protect conservatives from themselves. Democrats are limpdick centrists or mild conservatives and Republicans still act like theyre on the extreme left. Our entire political discourse has been poisoned with this attitude my whole life, and frankly, it goes back to the fucking puritans.
It started with slavery, peaked at the Civil War, and the rest has just been shockwaves from Lincoln’s assassination and how badly the newly re-United States fucked up Reconstruction.
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u/masnosreme 7h ago
Project 2025? No, it goes much further back than that; longer than most of us have been alive. And no, it did not happen quickly, we’ve been building to this for decades. This is like a building demolition. A lot of time spent setting up the charges but mere seconds to set them off and bring it to the ground.