The whole idea of civil rights is that all people are equal members of a society and therefore mechanisms that make us unequal are illegitimate.

MAGA has built for itself a perverse mirror ideology in which certain groups of people are known to be inherently unequal and therefore any mechanisms that attempt to make us equal are illegitimate.

The very core of MAGA ideology is white supremacy. Second to that, Christian supremacy, and male supremacy. These are justified with a tautology. White people (Christian/male/hetero/cisgendered white men) are supreme, therefore they deserve social, legal, political, and economic privilege, because white male cis/het Christian men are supreme.

This is the evil heart of MAGA, and its only true core principle that they will not abandon. It lies beneath everything else; every corruption and every authoritarian attitude branches from an almost pathological need to create a racial and patriarchal underclass who can be dominated and tortured without consequence.

The entirety of conservative philosophy exists to justify and legitimize this core falsehood - that inequality is inevitable, natural, and desirable.

This is why there can be NO COMPROMISE and NO COEXISTENCE with MAGA, yes even blue, leftist MAGA. It is the cancer that we either purge completely, or will kill us.

@Lana I'd just like to have competent MEN OR WOMEN OR ANOTHER CLASS OF PERSONS in charge of the duties I want them to conduct on my behalf, so I don't have to worry about it, because I have plenty of responsibilities as it is.

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What does this purging process look like? Asking for a friend.

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I'd take issue with only one aspect of this; it isn't MAGA alone, it's Republicans and conservatism broadly.

MAGA isn't the exception to the rule, conservatism at its very core is about creating inequality by seizing any mechanism that will allow it to do so. It's an invention of the wealthy to stay wealthy.

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I fear the Second Civil War in the US will be worse than the first one.
Possibly as bad as the Civil War in Russia, including the consequences.
Whoever wins, if there are winners at all.

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@vnikolov Trump declared war on the United States the second he sent an armed, invading military to forcibly occupy American cities.

@Lana Not a tautology - circular reasoning. A because B because A.

Wrong either way though!