
This capitalism leads to fascism just isn’t true. We can look at what happened to Tito’s Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union or how most of former east Germany is now for the AFD or how the Soviet Union was aligned with Nazi Germany or the current state of North Korea that’s been ruled by one family its entire existence.
Is the equivocation of language intentional, or are you actually ignorant to it? No one cheered on a genocide. Literally everyone, except maybe maga, agrees that Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are being killed in large numbers and that it’s wrong. Liberals just disagree with tankies that the intent is to eradicate ethnic Palestinians. Largely because the population of ethnic Palestinians living with citizenship in Israel is nearly double the population of black and African Americans
living in the U.S. It creates a cognitive dissonance when you called it genocide while they hold seats in the Israeli parliament. It’s similar to saying two guys who lost their family in a fire are the same when one fell a sleep with a candle still lit in the house while the other tied everyone up, poured gas on them, and lit the match. The outcome for both may be equal at the end in that both families were killed in a house fire, but the process is dramatically different.
As unfair that it was that Kamala was picked at the last minute instead of winning primaries it was either her or Trump. Her position on Gaza was much less than ideal but it would’ve been easier to work with her than with Trump. That was not the time to dig your heels in and demand perfection. You better be voting for pro-Palestine candidates the primaries(for midterms and general elections) or else I don’t wanna hear anything from you if you still have to pick the lesser of two evils later
He canceled $188.8 BILLION in student debt with razor thin congressional margins and a hostile Supreme Court. It’s like you think anything less than ripping up the constitution and being a tankie dictator is unacceptable. You completely lack any understanding of civics or how political capital is used and leveraged.
For immigration: Proposed US Citizenship Act of 2021 on his first day in office (though it failed to pass in Congress); repealed first Trump admin’s travel bans on majority-muslim and African countries; raised the annual refugee admissions ceiling to 125,000 (previously 15,000 under Trump); fortified DACA; etc. (much more you can look up).
For women’s rights: Signed the Violence Against Women Act in 2022; signed EO 14076 in the wake of SCOTUS repealing Roe v Wade to safeguard women’s access to reproductive healthcare; repealed the first Trump admin’s restrictions on Title X family planning clinics (which is the reason I could get an IUD as an uninsured student at no cost); established the White House Gender Policy Council; etc. that you can also look up
For trans rights: Reversed Trump’s transgender military ban; revised Title IX rules defining sex discrimination in schools to include discrimination based on gender identity; ordered federal agencies to do the same in relation to housing, healthcare, and employment; supported legal challenges to state bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth; etc.
Not to mention the BIL and IRA that had massive investments in transportation, infrastructure, clean energy, domestic manufacturing, healthcare reform, and helped curb runaway inflation. Or preventing medical debt from negatively affecting credit scores. Or banking reforms that dramatically curbed predatory fees and lending practices. Most of these being completely undermined because Trump got back into office.
I don’t disagree that more could’ve been done to safeguard all of these changes (even though this would’ve been a lot easier if Congress was not as narrowly split as it was during Biden’s term), but you know how we could’ve kept all of those changes and made them stronger in the future? Right, by keeping trump out of office. Which clearly you had no problem with
Every deflection is just “why didn’t he act unilaterally like a dictator?” These people either aren’t serious, illiberal, or both. Even Lincoln refused to act outside the law for abolition. They always assume they’ll get to be part of the in group of the dictatorship, so they’re ok with fascism.