‘There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.’ —Ernest Hemingway
A quote I shared before, but it seems the time has come.
Some Trump supporting family of mine is having issues understanding why I would disown family for supporting Trump, after the failed coup attempt that he praises. After the terrorist Ashli Babbit was shot in our capital attempting to overturn our democracy a year ago on Jan 6th, Trump has done nothing but support and honor her and blast the agent who killed her, who was obviously justified in his actions. But Trump wants to martyrize her for the continued fascist effort to destroy American democracy and really, destroy the country, because she died attempting to support his fascist coup and that coup attempt is still persisting in every facet that Republicans can muster.
So, the fact that Trump supports these terroristic propagandized maniacs should be more than enough for anyone to think twice about supporting this guy any further… Unless you support fascism. Well, that being the case, I can understand supporting Trump. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to accept that. By any standard of who we are as a civilized society, supporting fascism is supporting the destruction of law and order in the country. When votes no longer matter, laws no longer matter, and only those in charge decide what is legal and what is not – as all the rules don’t matter anymore. Democracy is the crux of the nation, of our laws, of our order.
While some may “believe” that Biden stole the election, I understand that may cause one to have a real need to support the coup attempt, the violence, the willful destruction of our democracy because to them it is already destroyed. Yet that is an extraordinary claim that has no evidence to back it up. The adage “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” is very prevalent in my mind here. We saw audit after audit verify the integrity of the election. There was frivolous and bogus Lawsuit after lawsuit thrown into the system to try to overturn the election results, leading to sanctions on their lunatic Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Lin Wood and fining them, but their legal troubles are far from over now and so is their ability to practice law is probably over. Not only did Trump attempt to to overturn the election through the incitement of a coup, it occurred through any possible way they could, pressuring people to not certify the election, pressuring people to find votes that didn’t exist, forging documents electoral votes are coming to light and the extent of this fascist coup attempt is still coming to light.
The voter fraud of course, came mostly from individual Trump supporters who have been propagandized into thinking that Democrats vote twice or vote for their dead relatives in order to win, so they themselves attempted it and of course got caught. Believing the election was stolen is one thing, but condoning violence and inciting violence based on that belief with no evidence to back it up is another, and the end result of that is fascism, further disorder, further violence en masse, and grounds for a civil war in a fight for democracy and against democracy.
Now, I know these things, and you should know these things, because they have a very real effect on our future and our understanding of what we as a people need to do in order to prevent the nation from collapsing into absolute fascist chaos and violence. Yet, people in my own family don’t seem to understand this and don’t understand how I disowned them for someone “who they voted for”. Its not “who they voted for”… its for what they continue to support, which is Trump, who obviously supports violence and fascism by his praise of Babbit, among other reasons. I don’t need to list all the reasons, because that alone is reason enough. Its simple really. Supporting Trump is supporting fascism, the terroristic coup that already occurred, and the next terroristic coup that will occur, and that is not something I will accept from anyone.
As Trump himself stated “I spoke to the wonderful mother and husband of Ashli Babbitt, who was murdered at the hands of someone who should have never pulled the trigger of his gun,”
Well, he should never have pulled the trigger of the gun if he wanted to defend our democracy. But its a good thing he did, as that angry horde had a stash of weapons, handcuffs and many had plans to kill anyone, including Mike Pence, in order to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as president. Now, with no proof of a fraudulent election and all evidence pointing towards a free and fair election occurring, as verified by the audits and bogus lawsuits that went nowhere, as evidenced by the various ways trump tried to keep power by any means at his disposal, it’s ENTIRELY IRRESPONSIBLE to continue to support Trump, who condoned the violence to destroy our democratic processes. Obviously, the end result of continuing to support that is not just irresponsible and dangerous for us all, it is obvious fascism.
If you know a Trump supporter, why would you accept that as a part of your life when their existence is a threat to all of our lives, ultimately? I would guess its time for those who support Trump to understand though, that its time for those to understand that fascism is not a dirty word to them, but something they embrace. That time has come.
Rumination Factory 