I am disappointed in a lack of explanation for Sargent's position. As bad as the MAGA movement is, I still want to try to understand how they think.
They aren't motivated by Capitalism and Neoconservatism like the republicans of old, nor are they motivated by the Realpolitik and Neoliberalism of the Democratic Establishment or the egalitarianism and environmentalism that motivates the progressives.
Bingo. The actual MAGA crowd (not the political self interest Rep politicians nor most of the evangelicals who are driven by a few religious doctrine driven issues, nor the rascists and Nazis) are simply societal cast offs.
Hence, the huge overlap with conspiracy culture, attacks on govt institutions, and anything that shifts blame to someone or something else, other than themselves, that accounts for their own shit lot in life.
This group of people have found a collective common expression of their dismal reality and it is incredibly ironic that they hitch themselves to a huge scumbag that plays them like a cheap fiddle.
In other circumstance I would feel sorry for these people. Instead, I feel like they are beyond redemption.
But the real problem is the Rep political class. Collectively they have no balls and daily expose that their service is entirely to themselves and not to their country and its people.
Sadly their contrarianism makes them dead wrong on damn near everything.
They also seem to think everything that ever happens is due to US politics. Usually in some kind of conspiritorial way.
- COVID? Done to influence US elections
- War in Ukraine? Biden's Fault
- Climate Change? Hysteria only done to keep democrats and the WEF in power.
These people are beyond delusional. I got ratio'd quite hard on twitter for pointing out that it was extremely unlikely COVID was a man-made virus unleashed by the CCP to influence US elections. Another person on this board, called some stuff covered in Economics 101 completely backwards. Anything said by scientists and experts cannot be trusted because it is a part of WEF's agenda.
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