Don't forget, even if you think "illegals" don't deserve to have rights... What are you, a US citizen going to do if the government claims you are an illegal? Don't you think you deserve the right to say, "hold up, I'm a citizen"?

It's over quoted, but the whole, "first they came for..." poem has a real message. If the system can start deciding to whom laws apply willy-nilly, that means it can decide on a whim that it doesn't apply to your uppity cousin, your mom, or even you.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

This is a fascist organization and there are definitely many fascists in the group, but I know for a fact there are people in this list that aren't.

I think they extended invites to local people who may not have known what SPN is, (or at least not have known the whole truth about who started SPN) with the hopes that by attending they would help sell the rebranded and normalized facade they are definitely trying to create.

I mean Christ on a cracker the keynote speaker is a "happiness guru" that coauthored a book with Oprah and gives lectures at Harvard. You would have no idea he was a right wing policy nut job just a few years ago based on the description they provide.

He suddenly decided one day to just completely rebrand himself and claimed to be done with the conservative political movement. Except now he's the fucking face of their annual fascist meetup.

They are hoping that if they can successfully rebrand fascism and authoritarianism while also controlling most media and the internet (two of the sponsors of this event are consumers' research and NCTA, the internet and television association formerly known as National Cable & Telecommunications) it will be even easier to sell it to America as they finish completing the goals laid out in project 2025.

There are definitely think tanks that aren't fascist. Unfortunately you just never hear about them, bc the ones you do hear about are the ones corporations dump money into to create the influence they want lobbied to politicians.

For some reason, most corporations and donors don't want to fund non-fascist think tanks.