Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefire | The Guardian - eviltoast

accidentally posted this in world news before bcs i forgot about the no internal US news rule by accident

Congressman Adam Smith says ‘totalitarian’ protesters are ‘trying to silence anyone who dares to disagree with them’

Protesters calling for Israel to cease fire in its war with Hamas who have disrupted US public events and infrastructure are practicing “leftwing fascism” or “leftwing totalitarianism”, a senior US House Democrat said, adding that such protesters are “challenging representative democracy” and should be arrested.

“Intimidation is the tactic,” said Adam Smith of Washington state, the ranking Democrat on the House armed services committee. “Intimidation and an effort to silence opposition … I don’t know if there’s such a thing as leftwing fascism. If you want to just call it leftwing totalitarianism, then that’s what it is. It is a direct challenge to representative democracy now.”

  • Wogi@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    We have two parties, conservative and fascist.

    We used to have a centrist and far right party. And before that, for a brief time, we had a liberal and a Conservative party.

    One party makes outrageous and unreasonable demands that only move to the right, and the other party is happy to negotiate with those demands, and so the country moves further and further to the right.

    We’re told the only way to stop this is to keep doing what we’ve already been doing.