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Even in the microcosm of this debate here I can see why we have had the rise of the hard right MAGA Trump Republicans, not excuseing it just observing. Since Independence Day I’ve posted things that the MAGA’s would hate, but also the lefties who used to love these ideas now hate too. Old fashioned but never ‘out of date’ truisms that America was founded on, (someone on here even said the Declaration of Independence was out of date)equality before the law, small low regulation government, especially the federal, states rights local people to make decisions for themselves, judge someone by their character and deeds not by their skin colour, gender or even political party, facts ahead of feelings etc. I reckon there is a number on here who don’t even believe in that America, the default America that both the left and right used to both believe in, that always needed improving but always within the bounds of their enlightenment level constitution not outside it.
One party goes outside it, the other does it too, and after a few decades they are miles off their original values. They can’t just say we don’t believe in them anymore and be an authoritarian state made in the image of fundamentalist Christianity or European socialism. Obviously the education has not taught their basic history or warped it to only teach the dreadful things and not the highest ideas.
One party goes outside it, the other does it too, and after a few decades they are miles off their original values. They can’t just say we don’t believe in them anymore and be an authoritarian state made in the image of fundamentalist Christianity or European socialism. Obviously the education has not taught their basic history or warped it to only teach the dreadful things and not the highest ideas.