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Shell_Seas

(3,514 posts)
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 07:50 PM Sunday

David Hogg Is Right: Fascism Is Here. Stop Pretending Otherwise.

The fight for democracy won’t be won by Democrats who refuse to fight back.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/david-hogg-is-right-fascism-is-here




I usually keep my focus on Texas politics. That’s where I live, that’s where I vote, and frankly, Texas gives us no shortage of battles worth fighting. So I don’t wade into national party drama lightly. There are already too many voices in that conversation. But the so-called controversy surrounding David Hogg isn’t just about the DNC or safe-seat primaries. It’s about the kind of politics that will or won’t survive the moment we’re living through. And that absolutely includes Texas.

If you care about what’s happening in Texas, to our trans kids, to our immigrant neighbors, to working people and public schools, then you already know the Democratic status quo in Washington, DC, isn’t cutting it. And the pushback against Hogg’s $20 million strategy to primary entrenched Democrats should sound familiar. It’s the same pearl-clutching we hear every time someone dares to suggest the problem isn’t just Republicans, but the Democrats, too scared, too compromised, or too tired to fight them.

Let’s be clear: the nightmare is already here. A woman was abducted off a street in Boston by unmarked agents. Asylum seekers are being held in US-sanctioned concentration camps. We’re not approaching a constitutional crisis. We’re living inside the fallout. Fascism is here.

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David Hogg Is Right: Fascism Is Here. Stop Pretending Otherwise. (Original Post) Shell_Seas Sunday OP
I dont know why he's catching so much shit.... AkFemDem Sunday #1
He is very young, charismatic, very articulate, and very successful. markodochartaigh Sunday #3
I like that, DemocratIC Clouds Passing Sunday #4
something HAS to change Skittles Monday #6
RepublICans .... live love laugh Sunday #5
Message auto-removed Name removed Sunday #2
True. But..but...Hogg is too LIBERAL!! Ping Tung Monday #7

AkFemDem

(2,497 posts)
1. I dont know why he's catching so much shit....
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 08:08 PM
Sunday

The whole POINT of primaries is to bring in fresh blood. In a general election it should be all hands on deck, everyone on the same page, no deviating from voting for the democrat. Primaries, though? That's when we get to shape the culture and future of our party and no one is forcing any of us to vote for democrat A over democrat B. Having viable choices is never a bad thing!

markodochartaigh

(2,707 posts)
3. He is very young, charismatic, very articulate, and very successful.
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 09:08 PM
Sunday

I think here on Democratic Underground the people who give him "shit" genuinely have opposing viewpoints about which way is best for the DemocratIC party to go. (I'm thinking about capitalizing the IC to get away from the Republicon slanderous trope "DemocRAT).

But I think that David Hogg is very much a target of the reich-wing and any "shit he is catching" in the mainstream media can be dismissed out of hand.

Skittles

(163,610 posts)
6. something HAS to change
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 04:01 AM
Monday

I'm tired of Dems begging for money while producing no results - and no, business as usual or the rock-star tour shit doesn't cut it with me. I am willing to give David Hogg the benefit of the doubt. Yes INDEED.

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