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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I absolutely hate MAGA.

But the inability of the sanctimonious anti-MAGA resistance that lives in their own echo chamber and can’t grasp how they’re a massive part of the problem is astounding and makes me very concerned about where things are headed. Because there’s no opposition that is actually pragmatic.  You just scream nazi.  Instead of nominating candidates at all level of government who are pragmatic and there to win elections and defend democracy, you still vote for social justice warriors who’s single issue is trans stuff.

Until the opposition actually wins elections, the rest of it is just an academic exercise.

Focus on winning not on what your friends think.  [/quote]

What has happened (unfortunately) in American politics is the rise of the cult political identity. This has happened to the right (MAGA) and the left (trans/Palestine). They are impervious to facts, they view anything who doesn’t strictly adhere to their cult beliefs as evil, and they are absolutely unable to compromise. Weirdly, the Republicans have been more flexible recently than a lot of the Democrats, whose purity test has become almost impossibly high, so the Republicans won. But it’s a failure on both sides.

In the cult progressive world, ideological purity on issues like trans rights is more important than winning elections. They’d rather lose than admit that perhaps it’s not right to have high school boys crushing girls on the track in state finals. That had crossed over into the category of religious belief, just like the MAGA weirdos who have pictures of Trump as Jesus or whatever.

Essentially, cultists control the major political parties now. And I don’t know how we recover from that. [/quote]

BoTh SiDeS

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