• fonix232@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    The right has become way too comfortable with the idea that they’re the only legitimate side to govern any country. It’s “stealing” because it’s “rightfully theirs”, and any attempt to take that power, however legitimate, is an affront, an offence.

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      4 days ago

      Reaches all the way back to modern conservatism’s origins as pro-monarchist reactionaries.

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      4 days ago

      Closely related to their love for hierarchies as the “natural order”. Democracy is fine as long as it solidifies the rule of the politicians they stupidly identify with. As soon as progressives gain power and start actually representing disenfranchised people, this order is violated, and that feels to conservatives like society itself is crumbling and any means are justified to “fix” it. Up to collaborating with fascists that promise to make us go away.

    • Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.caOP
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      6 days ago

      It isn’t about right vs left in Israel. This is about apartheid and racism because those “pesky Arabs” shouldn’t even be allowed to vote. They even tried to make Arab/Palestinian parties illegal and ineligible to run for elections. That’s a good chunk of the rhetoric in israel.