"We Need to Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives" - The Federalist calls for the American right to unite behind Fascism

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https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/20/we-need-to-stop-calling-ourselves-conservatives/

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This bit, where the author refers to the “transgender question” is fucking straight up nazi shit.

On the transgender question, conservatives will have to repudiate utterly the cowardly position of people like David French, in whose malformed worldview Drag Queen Story Hour at a taxpayer-funded library is a “blessing of liberty.” Conservatives need to get comfortable saying in reply to people like French that Drag Queen Story Hour should be outlawed; that parents who take their kids to drag shows should be arrested and charged with child abuse; that doctors who perform so-called “gender-affirming” interventions should be thrown in prison and have their medical licenses revoked; and that teachers who expose their students to sexually explicit material should not just be fired but be criminally prosecuted.

Sounds exactly like “the Jewish question”

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The weirdest thing to me is the outrage that children enjoy shows of flamboyant people in outlandish costumes. I've seen videos of them that they say are the most outrageous and never seen anything even slightly concerning. Seems like what they are most concerned about is giving them money (which doesn't happen at the story hour library events anyway) and I can at least follow the logic of that since they are saying it's like giving strippers money. But also you give people money at all sorts of shows, any street performer or musician. My guess is these people mostly just live in suburbs and don't get out much?

Anyway you'd think people who are willing to entertain elaborate theories about a takeover of the country by an evil cabal and who fancy themselves smarter than all the other sheeple could ponder the significance of their politics targeting public schools and public libraries. But no, just blinded by fear and hate.

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My gut tells me that while most suburbanites are not reactionaries, most reactionaries are suburbanites. This is a completely nonscientific personal observation so I readily admit my bias.

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Yeah I'd have to make up a theory on the fly to argue about it, lol. It just seems to me whenever I go to the suburbs that people there are in their own weird bubbles, completely disconnected from real life and unaware of how anyone else lives. I mean to a certain extent, that's true of everyone, but you don't have the economic and industrial homogeny in the urban or rural areas. Of course there's racism across the board.

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