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14. Thatcher Longstreth was just a bureaurat who agreed to be a sacrificial lamb

Tue Sep 13, 2022, 11:11 AM

Sep 2022

Perfectly nice guy, not an ounce of mean in him. These days, he'd be the last guy in the world you'd suspect of being a Republican--just like Rizzo was the last guy in the world you'd suspect of being a Democrat. No one even brought up if Thatcher was conservative or not. All that mattered was that he wasn't Rizzo. It's like getting into politics these days in South Dakota or Oklahoma. It's the courageous candidate indeed who thinks they will get anywhere starting out as a Democrat.

Thatcher's name does sort of sound like the kindly blacksmith in a Dickens novel, doesn't it?

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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