In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups.
In his remarks, Miller spoke of the Trump administration’s goals under National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) “to disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest, and prosecute these political terrorists.”
He said, without evidence, that there is an epidemic of violence among left-wing groups, and labelled leftists and left-wing organizations as “enemies of civilization” and a “cancer” that can “destroy a society” if not dismantled.
Miller went even further to say that not only left-wing groups, but also anyone who supports left-wing causes, must be subject to persecution. The issue with U.S. institutions, he said, is that they have grown too “soft” in cracking down on left-wing beliefs.
“Nothing that we do works if the threat of violence and terror goes on unchecked. Our political systems don’t work. Our judicial systems don’t work. Our legal systems don’t work. Our jury trials don’t work,” said Miller. “At the same time, we have to understand there’s a real threat that those who are not themselves terrorists but who support left-wing violence will create the conditions that allow that violence to go on.”
He even appears to acknowledge that a threat of widespread left-wing violence isn’t imminent, instead suggesting that the U.S. must work to “prevent a threat from occurring” and called on fellow Americans to work with the administration in targeting the left.
“It is the burden and the duty of good people of all walks of life to understand that you will always be accused of raising the alarm too loudly,” said Miller, invoking images of a “perfect family … that goes to church every Sunday” being destroyed by the left. “If you wait until the point where the worst outcome is so obvious that no one can deny it, you’ve already lost the battle.”
I honestly suspect Miller helped organize the tiki torch march.
The last four people to try and assassinate the President lived somewhere between Pete Buttigieg liberalism and 4chan Libertarian on the political spectrum.
So much of this screaming and crying about the “political left” is Republicans trying to work themselves up into a big enough lather to burn down a Synagogue with a “In This House We Believe” flag out front.
It’s the same hysteria that got whipped up over Muslims after 9/11, “Woke” during Obama, or COVID masks/vaccines. As deranged as it is misplaced.
They’re trying to whip their base into such a frenzie that they do another Krystalnacht. They want to do a genocide, and they want as much of their base to sign their names into the Book of the Beast as possible through the base’s support for genocide.
It’s the far left on lemmy who are all saying we aren’t going to vote our way out of this and that’s a call to violence if I’ve ever seen one.
I guess a national labor strike is violent to some people’s profits.
An assault on Capital is way worse than assaulting the Capital.
The thing that strikes me about 'Murica is the absurdity of voting in all sorts of people, into roles that should not be popularity contests
It’s not about freedom, it’s about pretending that it’s democratic while the arseholes in what passes for society there have a finger on the scales
Progressives need to be voting in all the dumb things in their community, because the RWNJS certainly are. Their churches and other institutions are whipping up voter support at that grassroots level and getting their useful idiots voted in.
This is a part of a very long-term strategy. I hate to admit that it’s genius, and has been incredibly effective
The average 'Murican is completely disengaged and just doesn’t care, either because they’re too busy trying to survive, too stupid to see the consequences, or too apathetic because they have been beaten into submission by the system
Compulsory voting is one of the best things about my country, and it has helped to keep it on a relatively even keel, despite the immense influence from 'Murica