@mmby @Black_Flag they do, of course, also still indulge in direct annihilation too.

@mmby @Black_Flag yes it really is. But it is also wrapped in a new "solution". The right no longer need bother with the messy direct annihilation of the sections of society they detest. They have new apparatus that mediate reality so thoroughly that they can control the definition of "fitness" and the conditions of survival.

@Black_Flag yeah, that's the crux of the rhetorical play here. It's a way of framing democracy as an inconvenience, even a threat due to it being poisoned by some unnamed malevolence. Beneath that viel it's pure bigotry: racism, nationalism, sexism, classism, elitism, anti-trans, queerphobia ...etc, etc. Often with more than a pinch of evangelical christianity thrown in for good measure.