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Whenever liberals point out that the N in Nazi stands for Nationalist some right wing shit head always wants to claim that the Nazis were Nationalist 'Socialist' thinking that the socialist part is more important.
Well, today, we're seeing the beginning of the full transition of the Republican party into just that. Trump is yet again stealing a Bernie Sanders and, to a lesser extent, Joe Biden idea. He's signed an order requiring drug companies to charge the same prices to Americans as they do to other foreign countries.
He's using the power of Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices just like Bernie has long advocated for, and Joe Biden attempted to do during his term. Things which at the time were attacked by the right as socialist price controls.
Tariffs, Price Controls... Trump even advocated for raising taxes on the wealthy. It's all socialism. Or at the least, it's what Republicans have been telling us was socialism for the last 40 years.
It's important to keep in mind, that many people who supported the Nazis did so because they helped form a bullwork against what they considered full blown Communism. That Nazis were socialists, but was key and different about them was that they were also Nationalist.
In the minds of Trump's racist xenophobic base, socialism isn't the problem so long as it's only for white Christians. They rejected socialism from the Bernie camp because in their minds it was white Christian tax dollars being used to benefit poor minorities and immigrants.
Trump has convinced them that this is all fine when he does it because they know he's a racist piece of shit who will only let the money go to members of their master race.
Ultimately, Fascism is what you get when you mix Socialism with Toxic Masculinity.
Bernie Sanders' policies are basically a Minivan. A very useful vehicle with plenty of space and storage for the whole family, but because it appeals to and has become associated with Soccer moms, men won't drive it.
Instead they want to spend twice as much money on a jacked-up Jeep or in this case a Cybertruck, even though they're going to use it the exact same way they'd use a Mini-van, but it makes their penis feel bigger.
It all reminds me of that movie Inception. In the film, they're trying to make this man think he should sell his company, but they can't just plant the idea in his head in a dream, they have to make him think it was his idea in the first place.
For decades Republicans have framed Liberalism and Socialism as something that Feminazis, educated types, big city elitists wanted to help out poor minorities, when in reality it was mostly rural whites that would actually benefit from these policies.
Just more proof that liberals have been right about Trump supporters all along. It's not Socialism you hate. It's women and minorities. As long as it's framed as a white Christian man's idea fighting for white Christian men, the same idea on steroids is suddenly fine.
Well, today, we're seeing the beginning of the full transition of the Republican party into just that. Trump is yet again stealing a Bernie Sanders and, to a lesser extent, Joe Biden idea. He's signed an order requiring drug companies to charge the same prices to Americans as they do to other foreign countries.
He's using the power of Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices just like Bernie has long advocated for, and Joe Biden attempted to do during his term. Things which at the time were attacked by the right as socialist price controls.
Tariffs, Price Controls... Trump even advocated for raising taxes on the wealthy. It's all socialism. Or at the least, it's what Republicans have been telling us was socialism for the last 40 years.
It's important to keep in mind, that many people who supported the Nazis did so because they helped form a bullwork against what they considered full blown Communism. That Nazis were socialists, but was key and different about them was that they were also Nationalist.
In the minds of Trump's racist xenophobic base, socialism isn't the problem so long as it's only for white Christians. They rejected socialism from the Bernie camp because in their minds it was white Christian tax dollars being used to benefit poor minorities and immigrants.
Trump has convinced them that this is all fine when he does it because they know he's a racist piece of shit who will only let the money go to members of their master race.
Ultimately, Fascism is what you get when you mix Socialism with Toxic Masculinity.
Bernie Sanders' policies are basically a Minivan. A very useful vehicle with plenty of space and storage for the whole family, but because it appeals to and has become associated with Soccer moms, men won't drive it.
Instead they want to spend twice as much money on a jacked-up Jeep or in this case a Cybertruck, even though they're going to use it the exact same way they'd use a Mini-van, but it makes their penis feel bigger.
It all reminds me of that movie Inception. In the film, they're trying to make this man think he should sell his company, but they can't just plant the idea in his head in a dream, they have to make him think it was his idea in the first place.
For decades Republicans have framed Liberalism and Socialism as something that Feminazis, educated types, big city elitists wanted to help out poor minorities, when in reality it was mostly rural whites that would actually benefit from these policies.
Just more proof that liberals have been right about Trump supporters all along. It's not Socialism you hate. It's women and minorities. As long as it's framed as a white Christian man's idea fighting for white Christian men, the same idea on steroids is suddenly fine.
