The calls for Joe Biden to step aside have been met with furious accusations of treason, disloyalty, and betrayal. This is bad for the entire country

Is the Democratic party, the self-proclaimed party of liberal values and scientific data, morphing into a Maga-like cult in front of our eyes?

Over the past few weeks, the calls for Joe Biden to step aside have been met not with thoughtful critiques or reasoned counter-arguments but with furious accusations of treason, disloyalty, and betrayal.

Whatever happened to the importance of voicing dissent? Of speaking truth to power? Weren’t liberals supposed to be the folks who value open debate and discussion?

especially online; of elected Democrats on Capitol Hill; and of the Democratic president himself, since the CNN debate on 28 June, will have spotted some of those “tell-tale signs”.

Let’s start with the Democratic base – those “hyper-partisans” who “act like members of a cult because they treat their political party like a religious identity”, to quote the political strategist Chris Sosa. I have spent the past few weeks watching the Very Online members of the base embracing an endless stream of “Blue Anon” conspiracy theories, pushed on behalf of the Dear Leader.

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    Getting real news that conflicts with the echo chamber must be real scary.

    Blue MAGA man good no criticism allowed!

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      Never heard the term ever before.

      2 weeks ago started hearing it from accounts like yours and other who nonstop post negative stories about Democratic Party.

      Now you post a weirdly written OPINION PIECE whose author once delivered a sermon calling non-Muslims “cattle”, and who previously espoused anti-abortion and homophobic views while claiming to be leftwing. In other words an inconsistent, opportunistic shit stirrer who has as much to do with the left wing as the gadsden flag.

      This and your astro turfed term all stink of shit, and all you do is repeat “bLuE mAgA” when disagreed with. Posts are nonsense.

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        “Never sees the term Blue MAGA” but also scours the internet for adhominem falsehoods against the author.

        Certified Blue MAGA moment.

        Try searching Blue MAGA in my Lemmy history.

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        I post plenty of criticism of Trump. Maybe the Blue MAGA alarm doesn’t go off when it’s not something bad about Biden.

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      The VBNMW crowd did this to themselves. They created an environment for someone like Trump to be viable by accepting all forms of fascism and oppression as long as it came from a democrat.