Don't confuse Appeasers with Fascist Dupes/Fascists

[pat_k]

By definition, appeasers are folks on "our side" who are who are appeasing the opposition.

In the battle for our national soul, "our side" is the Anti-Fascist camp.

Appease: To pacify or attempt to pacify (an enemy) by granting concessions, often at the expense of principle.

• Americans who are players in the conspiracies to steal our elections, destroy our constitutional institutions, rule by signing statement, hold the power they have seized at any cost, and gather ever more power unto themselves, are Fascists.


• Americans who are cheering on the Fascists are Fascists themselves, or Fascist Dupes (not always easy to tell apart).


• Americans who are looking the other way, knowing that a Fascist cabal has taken the WH, are appeasers.


• Americans who advise us to "lay low" on Impeachment until we win back the House are appeasers.


• Americans who see the Fascists for what they are, but who "make nice", rationalizing that doing so will somehow win them political points are appeasers.

Just to be clear, when they are silent on Impeachment, citizens don't have the same level of culpability as members of Congress. Average citizens are not public servants who have taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Nevertheless, to choose silence so you don't rouse an enemy is to appease.

I make a point of distinguishing the Fascists and the Fascists Dupes from Appeasers because we need to deal with the people who fall into each of these camps in very different ways.

• Appeasers
  These people are "our" problem -- it is up to us to persuade them that it is a moral imperative to demand Impeachment.


• Fascist Dupes
  These people can, and should, be ignored. We don't need to go after these folks directly. As more of "us" break our silence, they are getting swept up in the changing tide.


• Fascists
  These people are fighting us for the American soul. Impeachment is our battleground and we must fight to make it a reality with everything we've got.