(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2020, @05:14AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Friday June 26 2020, @05:14AM (#1012786)
Good ideals don't excuse bad behavior. Speaking of fascists, you might want to read the Fascist Manifesto. [wikipedia.org] It was the document which defined the original literal Fascist Party's ideals and values. You might find you agree with most, if not all, of it. That's not a problem - I do too. But do you know what history now just remembers them as Fascists? Because ideals don't matter - behavior does. And their ideals were noble, but their methods were fascist.
Tearing down statues, forming digital mobs (alongside real life ones now), extreme racism while claiming it's not racism, and having 0 hesitancy to engage in every possible Machiavellian scheme if they think it will further their ends, and of course an absolute and extreme intolerance for any other worldview is what is increasingly defining the democratic party today. And I suspect that is what they will be remembered for, especially should they continue further down the dangerous path they're already on.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2020, @05:14AM
Good ideals don't excuse bad behavior. Speaking of fascists, you might want to read the Fascist Manifesto. [wikipedia.org] It was the document which defined the original literal Fascist Party's ideals and values. You might find you agree with most, if not all, of it. That's not a problem - I do too. But do you know what history now just remembers them as Fascists? Because ideals don't matter - behavior does. And their ideals were noble, but their methods were fascist.
Tearing down statues, forming digital mobs (alongside real life ones now), extreme racism while claiming it's not racism, and having 0 hesitancy to engage in every possible Machiavellian scheme if they think it will further their ends, and of course an absolute and extreme intolerance for any other worldview is what is increasingly defining the democratic party today. And I suspect that is what they will be remembered for, especially should they continue further down the dangerous path they're already on.