PFVA wrote:If Trump's Republican and Elon's whatever start going at each other throats it might be beneficiary for everybody else.
Indeed, a convenient benefit of intolerance is its tendency to eat itself and, thus, split the vote.
They begin hating each other for not being sufficiently hateful - and UKIP, then Brexit Part, now Reform, splits off from the Tories, the "America Party" will split off from the Republicans (and the Republicans themselves already internally split, really, with "the Tea Party / MAGA" but they were able to remain stuck together enough for the vote, but were ideologically two parties inside one and have been for a long time).
In fact, we've perhaps been too dependent on the fascists clobbering themselves by splitting off into 37 different factions of "the Racist party" - UKIP / Brexit Party / Reform, BNP, National Front, etc. - that none of them have previously been any election threat, as they kept splintering off into a million pieces all the time.
Unfortunately, as Trump is demonstrating, that kind of splintering from "the haters hating the other haters that don't hate enough" - the "no true Scotsman" of neo-Nazism - can be held together, in a ramshackle way, by having a "cult leader" for them all to worship, even if only symbolically, while still hating the man.
"Words ought to be a little wild - for they are assaults of thought on the unthinking."
- John Maynard Keynes
