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it’s the idiot fucking assholes who vote for them… there is no systemic cure for them…
Deprogramming them is going to be a decades-long process, and it can only begin when we break the far-right’s media machine. Cable news and political talk radio is the cancer that is killing this country, and cutting it out is a tall order. But it must be done; it’s going to take a long time to rehabilitate those who have been consuming the brain poison for 30+ years.
let’s go ahead and start with some good old fashioned smacks upside the head and see what good we do, before we do much prognostication
It’s so much worse than that.
In the entire history of the world, no one has EVER been able to deprogram a fascist cult of this size.
In all of human history, across all times and cultures, the only way these people have ever been defeated was through bloody conflict.
Remember, as much as you despise them bigotry, cruelty to immigrants and minorities, willful ignorance, taking away women’s rights, keeping us from affordable healthcare, siding with our enemies, etc,etc … They hate you JUST AS MUCH for entirely fictional grievances. They LITERALLY BELIEVE that Democrats are baby-killing pedophiles. They LITERALLY BELIEVE that the deep state is a real thing, and that it’s acting against them.
The Q-ANON insanity is TRUTH to a huge portion of these absolute morons.
In related news: duh.
Thing is they don’t see themselves as broken. They see themselves as who they want to be - future dictators of America.
Everyone here claiming to have the answer are identifying things that aren’t true in other places in the world that have the same problem: right wing extremist populism.
Personally I wouldn’t let the systematic flaws in our government system off the hook for enabling things like this to happen, having no formal way for citizens to recall federal representatives, and allowing justice to crawl so slowly it may not stop someone who committed crimes around and about the election in time from wining the next election and setting up a sham trial or impeachment that clears him and prevents him from being charged with that crime under double jeopardy laws ever again like they just did with Ken Paxton. A healthy system doesn’t ever get to where we are and there’s no getting around that it’s part of the problem. It really seems like the laws of this country are not enough to save it.
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Republicans were taken over by populists, and populists don’t seek to govern, they seek to impose their will.
If anyone here thinks the Democrat party wouldn’t be exactly like the current Republican Party if they got swept by Progressives, I have several fine bridges to sell you.
Populism is brain cancer.
