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After Trump, Hawley will be the next MAGA leader. He is smart and he is scary.
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
I honestly don't believe that a majority of Americans, or even close to a majority, approve of the crap that's been spewed, culminating in the attempted coup last week. I think it's quite possible that the MAGA crowd will overreach and turn off anyone who might be sympathetic to their cause, yet sane. If Hawley wants to tie himself to the remaining base I think it's career suicide. We saw the greatest voter turnout ever in the POTUS election and Biden clearly won the popular vote. That was *before* the chaos of last week. I think this may galvanize many to get off their butts and vote. At least I hope so. In terms of sustainability, it seems to me that we should take decisive, legal action to reduce the types of voter suppression we saw this past cycle--vote by mail roadblocks, removing thousands from the voting rolls, reducing the number of polling places, gerrymandering, etc. I know we can't get all of it done, but until the playing field is permanently made more level, we're looking at candidates quaking in fear of being primaried, over and over again. | |||
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I think Nina is right. Hope she is. Remember thinking Trump did not have a chance.
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I'm not confident at all that it won't happen again.
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana  |
How, exactly? The Voting Rights Act has been gutted. And states like Georgia had become the laboratory for suppressing votes while still complying (within a gnat's eyelash) of the letter of the law. These are all controlled at the state level. I'm guessing about 2/3 of the states -- maybe more? -- have some effective suppression measures in place. Many states with majority Democrats have state legislatures that are majority republicans, and usually, the governor is republican, too. Rich white men have rigged the system to favor rich white men. Whatcha gonna do about it?
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None of us really thought Trump had a chance. He was too much of a buffoon. Everyone could see through him. None of us thought he'd survive the Access Hollywood scandal. None of us know anything. | |||
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I’m not sure we understand anything now. I’ve lost friends for reasons that make no sense whatsoever. Along with everyone else I’ve tried to make sense of this mania that has gripped America. It might be worse than Covid. Lizard people? Really? Pedo rings run out if the basement of a pizza place that has no basement? We’ve always had kooks in Congress, I’ll put Bernie on that list, but QAnon kooks? I despair.
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I just started reading Ezra Klein’s book Why We’re Polarized. Interesting so far. I hope he has some ideas about how we get out of this.
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana |
Among the scary bits for me are the nihilists. The most coherent version is to eliminate congress and enthrone I-1 as emperor - supreme autocratic dictator Dear Leader. Even some of the MAGAts that curse I-1 for saying the violence was bad still cling to making him emperor. But a lot of these people just want to burn it all down and they have no plan for what to do next.
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IMO many simple minds see having a dictator or royals is a simple solution to a complex frightening world. A medieval mindset? Future Shock is here.
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The roots of Hawley's rage "In other words, Mr. Hawley’s idea of freedom is the freedom to conform to what he and his preferred religious authorities know to be right." The line of thought here is starkly binary and nihilistic. It says that human existence in an inevitably pluralistic, modern society committed to equality is inherently worthless.
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Ha! I read that book in high school and it made an impact on me then. I haven't thought about it much since, but I think you're on to something. Using that book to frame the current situation makes sense of a lot of what is going on. I need to read it again.
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That sounds a lot like Bill Barr's take on things. The Christianists are hell-bent on destroying the country... but I will never understand how they hold up a serial adulterer, utterly immoral and corrupt scumbag as their chosen one.
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Model predicts 'religiosity gene' will dominate society.
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana |
Interesting, given how anti-immigration the current flock of far-right religious types are. | |||
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