President Joe Biden is arguing that “there is something dangerous happening in America” as he revives his warnings that Donald Trump and his allies represent an existential threat to the country’s democratic institutions.

There is an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy. The MAGA movement,” Biden says in excerpts of the speech Thursday in Arizona, released in advance by the White House, referring Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan.

Although voting in the 2024 Republican primary doesn’t begin for months, Biden’s focus reflects Trump’s status as the undisputed frontrunner for his party’s nomination despite facing four indictments, two of them related to his attempts to overturn Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

  • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    01 year ago

    They’re no more stupid than leninists. Honestly both having roots being on the authoritarian end of the spectrum. They are an excellent mirror of each other. Having more in common than they are different realistically.

    It’s really isn’t a problem of stupidity. More a problem of taking an ideology or way of thinking as the core of their personality. Combining that with an unwillingness to rationalize or change.

      • @meyotch@slrpnk.net
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        01 year ago

        It’s fine to recognize good ideas regardless of source, but politics is so much more than just ideas.

        Centrism, especially at this point in time, may be the most dangerous political philosophy of all. After all, they will cast the decisive votes in 2024. The center of “democracy” and “no democracy” is “less democracy”.

      • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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        01 year ago

        In general I do not. Since realistically Libertarians, anarchists, etc share any of the good ideas leninists might have. Without embodying all the bad things leninists do. As long as were talking true libertarians, social-libertarians. And not the fash friendly, selfish neo-libertarians of privilege on the right.

        Absolute power corrupts absolutely. No matter the intentions behind it.

          • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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            01 year ago

            A party that’s socially suppresses the people does not represent the people. I say this about capitalism and leninism both. The party should only answer to the people. Not the other way round.

            Like the farmers that under threat of the party. We’re forced to listen to the lunatic ramblings of Trofim Lysenko. Discarding what they knew would work to follow his unfounded recommendations. Exacerbating famines in Russia China Etc killing Millions. Committees and councils are absolutely bad about inaction. But inaction on genocide and torture I’ll take that any day.

              • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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                01 year ago

                Nice deflection. There was Global famine happening. Yes it happened before. His policies specifically pushed by the party militantly exacerbated and killed Millions more people than would have otherwise died. But you can’t face that fact. This is what I talk about no ability to be rational or self critique.

                • queermunist she/her
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                  01 year ago

                  How was there a global famine happening if communism only emerged in one country at that point? Doesn’t that strike you as odd?

                  Or are you one of those ultra left “everyone except for my sooper speshul ideology is bad!”?

                  • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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                    01 year ago

                    How was there a global famine happening if communism only emerged in one country at that point? Doesn’t that strike you as odd?

                    No. Because that’s a non sequitur claim that I never made.

                    Or are you one of those ultra left “everyone except for my sooper speshul ideology is bad!”?

                    No not at all. I can work with liberals and other right Wingers of their ilk. I disagree with them highly. But can work with it. It’s the authoritarians and those who selfishly enable authoritarians for their own benefits that I don’t get along with.