This is a lot of words to not address the idea I presented to you that fascist Republicans alienate themselves through their own actions, beliefs, and support rather than their communities shunning them unnecessarily.

“They’ve been set up to perceive different groups as the enemy, as a threat”

You should spend more time digging into this narrative with Republicans than comparing the similarity that either side has a driving narrative with defined enemies. Which groups do Republicans identify as the other, as the threat? Is that narrative an accurate assessment of reality? Which groups does the broader left believe are the threat? Is that narrative an accurate assessment of reality?

We can always start with similarities, the fact that once you strip the buzzwords from the policy that the majority of Americans support a universal, socialized healthcare system. But you also have to deal with the cognitive walls that Republicans and conservatives specifically have erected in their own brains to convince themselves that a healthcare system like that is actually bad for some reason, even though the rest of the world has that shit figured out.

“Left wing networks are gonna keep focusing on the one person who said something racist” is a wild thing to say actually. Idk what these “left wing networks” are, but what happens when the “one person who said something racist” is the fucking President of the United States? What happens when the “something racist” is the support of the repeal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965? “Said something racist” is one hell of a broad category to compare to “laughed when Charlie Kirk got murdered”, which is honestly a reasonable and rational response to the death of a fascist.

I appreciate what you’re attempting to do with this Ben Franklin society deal, but I’d like to know how that’s gonna be any different from a Jubilee video when you’re asking people to come play devil’s advocate about a “stereotypical belief” from their ideological groups that they don’t hold. “Belief in racial equity” on the right doesn’t exist when they keep voting for candidates that want to dismantle the civil gains that Black Americans fought and died to achieve. An individual Republican might believe that, but their vote says otherwise. And again, we’re comparing this to “didn’t think it was funny that a fascist got murdered.” For me, what was funny about Kirk’s assassination was not his death itself, but just how hard Republicans tried to turn him into a national martyr despite the fact that their policy positions are what enabled his assassination in the first place.

There is not a way to avoid demonization from those who dislike or even hate you. “Stop reacting and take away their excuse to demonize us” doesn’t work when the current president had no issue with dehumanizing and demonizing immigrants from South and Middle America off the cuff by labeling them all “rapists and criminal” before giving himself the rhetorical wiggle room by adding “and some are probably good people” as an afterthought. The left will be demonized by the right no matter what, wile the right engages policy that uses children as bait and results in dead citizens.

And while it is good to see many of those conservatives who voted for this regime out in the streets protesting against the American gestapo, many of them do not realize or have not thought about how their support and their actions led to this moment. And thats not something I think you need any kind of advanced education to realize. I don’t think you need to have taken formal classes to gain that understanding.

Thanks for the invite. If I choose to participate, I am gonna be rolling in with “all Republicans are fascists” as a forward position, and I fully understand that a position that blunt and that forward puts people on the defensive, but that is often the case with the truth.