I don't know about this one chapos. I mean, can you imagine what it would be like to live under a dictatorship? They'd probably do crazy shit like ban bodily autonomy, ban protesting, make it illegal to criticize regimes that are in league with the dictator, ban mass communication platforms, crack down on immigration, allow friendly corporations to operate their own mafias they'd use to kill whistleblowers, and just generally crush poor and working people. I wouldn't want to live under a rule like that.
Don't forget passing the most draconian mass surveillance bill, turning every American business into an arm of the state, ever (even since the last one).
We already had all this scaremongering about Trump the first time round, and it didn't happen. So yes, it's already been memory holed once, and is now equally believed again. The loop shall continue.
It won't matter because for libs the concept of living under a dictatorship is purely vibes based. Their definition involves no material consequences or realities just vibes
This has always been liberals' foremost issue with Trump: that they find him embarrassing, not that he is tangibly worse than what they have to offer, or worse than all the other shitty presidents we've had before.
I remember when saying that centrism was "genociding half the group" was a joke/criticism, but somehow it got lathed and now every lib is just saying it unironically.
And if we're very well-behaved, we might get lucky enough to hear Biden tell Netanyahu that he's very disappointed in him before sending him another couple billion in unconditional military aid!
How successful would a Trump "dictatorship" even be?Republican state legislatures have been successful in getting reactionary xenophobic laws passed with no counter from the Federal Government under Biden.
Democrat run states are neoliberal hellscapes, sure (California homelessness and all) but Republicans have been unsuccessful in getting anti-abortion or anti-LGBTQ laws passed there and that won't change under Trump.
Can they even describe what a Trump "dictatorship" would entail that is different from current repression? Roe V Wade is gone, COVID welfare is gone, tax cuts on the rich have not been reversed.
What exactly is the difference between Trump and Biden? Everything they warned us would happen under Trump is happening under Biden right now. And if they haven't happened yet, he has 0 safeguards for the future democrats who would holder power, and in fact, he's been bolstering the potential powers of a future fascist leader. The party isn't even interested in performatively condemning police brutality towards peaceful protestors. How long before Biden orders the police to beat all the students on the grass so he can take a picture holding the constitution with the zionist counter protestors?
They are having brunch and dinners while the world suffers, while their own pathetic party suffers, partially because the Israel lobby is strong and you can't exactly criticize cops who are "defending" the schools from "antisemitism," but also partially because they're genuinely offended that anyone could have a problem with what Israel is doing. They don't give a about you living in a dictatorship. It's actually beneficial because they can have their conservative goons enforce their ideology with force while they get to sit back and pretend to be saddened.
Biden is useful in establishing this as the status quo. Concentration camps on the border are just run of the mill, crackdowns on protestors is a-ok and genocide is just a thing you need to get as a treat.
I don’t doubt that Trump could do worse in a multitude of areas, but it wouldn’t be possible without the legitimacy that is given to positions like these by Biden or dems at large.
Guantanamo is still running. I remember when libs were up in arms about it during the Bush era, just like the kids in cages with Trump.
