There’s that classic liberal attitude we all know and love.

How is the American government “fascist”?

It gets posted thousands of times because it’s true. “Nazi” Is the default attack by the far left. Someone *doesn’t * want free speech abolished? Nazi!

It’s anti-democratic boo matter what paradox you want to try and spin it as.

This is one side who fears losing power trying to eliminate their political opponent who is rapidly gaining followers. It’s authoritarian, it’s anti-democratic, and it’s fascism. It’s LITERALLY WHAT THE NAZIS DID for crying out loud!

Democracy means the will of the people. The government banning the party that has the most supporters is the exact opposite of that.

And banning opposition parties is anti-democratic. Can you think of any other German government that banned opposing political parties?

There’s no way to stop a new party forming that gets all the same voters on board while meeting any rules required.

Cool made up things! Republicans are trying to ban you from saying gay people exist now? Source? Websites are being censored? Source?

Ah yes because the ALP have been so competent the last 3 years, haven’t they? No, they’ve been a complete shitshow.

The LNP are a shitshow too, and Dutton deserved to be nowhere near being prime minister, but let’s not sugar coat it - Labor have run the country into the ground. Can you name a single thing that has improved over the last 3 years?

“Progressives”/Liberals are straight up begging for authoritarian dictatorships.

I missed when calling for smaller government, less regulations, less red tape, untouchable free speech, and less censorship suddenly became “fascism”.

First time on Lemmy/Reddit?

Also ironic is that banning political parties is not compatible with the free democratic order.

So say they ban them……then what? You think that the most popular political party in the country isn’t going to just reform again while complying with whatever rule got them banned in the first place? Of course they will, and they’ll have the same support, if not more due to the perceived anti-democratic banning of the AfD.

Next stop authoritarian dictatorship I guess? Just ban all elections so they can’t take power?

Where’s the crackdown on free speech by “MAGA” there?

What “free speech crackdown” are they talking about? They don’t give any examples, and it’s just a passing comment in the article really. How is “MAGA” cracking down on free speech?