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If you vote for a fascist are you a fascist? [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2022 OP
and those self-identified progressives who refused to vote for Hillary in 2016,are fascist enablers. JohnSJ Sep 2022 #1
Orwell said if you hamper the efforts of one side you inevitably help the other side. DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2022 #4
+++ JohnSJ Sep 2022 #6
Or if the fascists vote for you? Walleye Sep 2022 #2
No. I voted for a fascist named Villanueva for sheriff along with thousands of other democrats ColinC Sep 2022 #3
The fact a person knows he or she is a voting for a fascist is implied in the question. DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2022 #5
And I think it's safe to assume that most* voters fo fascists do not actually know they are voting ColinC Sep 2022 #10
Most of the 47% of Americans who voted for Trump knew they were voting for a fascist. DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2022 #21
Most of the folks I knew who voted for Trump adamantly rejected the comparison. ColinC Sep 2022 #22
Because being a fascist carries a social stigma DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2022 #26
So do you think they were lying about it? ColinC Sep 2022 #27
A lot of people have authoritarian personalities and are unaware of them DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2022 #30
Voting for Villanueva for LA Sheriff is probably the only vote I've taken in my entire life Just A Box Of Rain Sep 2022 #16
Hindsight 20/20, I feel McDonnell was a very good man ColinC Sep 2022 #23
I also felt that McDonnell was a good reform-minded sheriff. Just A Box Of Rain Sep 2022 #25
Not necessarily. It all depends on your reason for doing so. DFW Sep 2022 #7
It sounds like you voted for a moderate conservative AGAINST a "fascist." Hortensis Sep 2022 #12
Thatcher Longstreth was just a bureaurat who agreed to be a sacrificial lamb DFW Sep 2022 #14
Lol, it does. Or a rare kindly schoolmaster. Here in our blood-red GA district, Hortensis Sep 2022 #20
Unfortunately, we manifest as our actions, not our personal conceits, Hortensis Sep 2022 #8
Water is also wet LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #9
If you drive the getaway car are you a bank robber? Chainfire Sep 2022 #11
Those who vote REPUBLICAN are Fascists. ProudMNDemocrat Sep 2022 #13
Not always. Words need to be accurate in order to have meaning Tom Rinaldo Sep 2022 #15
This is spot on. Those who knowingly vote for fascists are at minimum "fascist enablers." Just A Box Of Rain Sep 2022 #19
No not necessarily probably kacekwl Sep 2022 #17
Most of them, yes, but a small percentage Elessar Zappa Sep 2022 #18
I think Fascist are Deplorable. mackdaddy Sep 2022 #24
Nah, that's silly Bucky Sep 2022 #28
One doesn't have to take goose steps or favor putting their opponents into ovens to be a fascist DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2022 #32
Words matter. Bucky Sep 2022 #33
Was Henri Petain a fascist or a quitting or both? DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2022 #34
Fascist or ignorant Silent3 Sep 2022 #29
No, but with an asterisk Polybius Sep 2022 #31
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