What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?

Article I saw thanks to a repost from Nima citations-needed .

Shitting on Red Scare is something I’m always here for. I think the core is this:

Maybe there’s a kind of gravity to the slide, the black hole of fascism sucking toward it all the loose particles of those whose commitments were never complex or whose convictions were snapped by despair. And the accusation that arises with almost every left-to-right slider, that they’re sell-outs, just doing it for the money? Yes, some are. Yes, and—because even when it starts that way, the transaction is transformational.

  • davel [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m so tired of these “you’ve changed, man” articles. I’ve been following Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald for over 20 years, and their politics haven’t changed. They are and have always been libs with a focus on civil liberties.

    The vote pundits didn’t expect Taibbi & Greenwald to continue criticizing power after G. W. Bush left office. They mistakenly thought that Greenwald & Taibbi were the-democrat hacks like they were.

  • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I can’t stand this article. It’s basically “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.” Plus the fact that it’s impossible to make money as a journalist without being either a liberal or a fascist, both of which are on the right. The intensifying contradictions of capitalism are pushing many people to the right as we speak, as it becomes necessary for them to adopt increasingly violent and ridiculous methods to protect their ill-gotten gains.