US Politics on Sidechat | It's sad that conservatives always need a domestic enemy. First it was Black people during the civil rights movement, then gay people, followed by Muslims after 9/11, and now trans people. You cannot have a peaceful democracy when people think like this.

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It's sad that conservatives always need a domestic enemy. First it was Black people during the civil rights movement, then gay people, followed by Muslims after 9/11, and now trans people. You cannot have a peaceful democracy when people think like this.

Anonymous 17h

Fear mongering is effective

Anonymous 17h

when you look at influential conservative thinkers (like carl schmitt) they basically believe that having an ideological enemy is what’s necessary for a functional society

Anonymous 15h

Teddy Roosevelt started as a Republican and I guess his domestic enemy was Congress… which as the story goes, he absolutely “mogged” as they say.

Anonymous 15h

This is a uniquely conservative problem. No one on the left has ever demonized cuban americans, jewish americans, asian americans, or the rich rural southern capitalist christian straight cis white male.

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#4 14h

The pro Palestinian people certainly have. And the democrats of Johnson’s era trying to manipulate black America, FDR during WWII against Japanese in America… I’m sure I could find more examples.