MAGA thrives because there’s nothing in place to hold them accountable.

These people only understand violence and intimidation. Things like institutional power and limits mean nothing to them. This is why they ignore the courts, the constitution, the law, international organizations, national agencies, and so on. To them, democracy, rule of law, checks and balances aren’t principles to live by and uphold, to them they’re obstacles to absolute power. That’s why they seethe when an institution works as intended and cheer when they get a corrupt one to manipulate.

If we had true accountability, they would never see the light of day. Opposition in a democracy is a chain that goes from the bottom, and all the links need to work together as one. It goes something like this:

1. It starts with the people. The people need to believe in democracy in order to act, because democracy doesn’t work when people aren’t actively involved in government.
2. When the people are involved, they need to create groups that organize resistance movements. These movements need to be very principled, have specific demands, and have specific targets/goals in order to mobilize people.
3. Once the people are mobilized, they carry out strikes, protests, demonstrations, and other acts of civil disobedience in order to apply pressure on the media and other NGOs as well as local and state politicians to act on their behalf.
4. The local and state politicians on board will then apply pressure on their national representatives, and the ones that don’t will be voted out and replaced. Same for goes for media and other orgs, if they’re not on board then they will be boycotted.
5. Likewise, the national representatives on board will apply pressure on their colleagues to act, and the ones who don’t need to be replaced.
6. Once you have a majority of the national representatives feeling genuine fear of losing their jobs or otherwise from the public, then they will start acting accordingly in order to save their own asses. They will turn to the law, the courts, institutions, and checks balances to do their jobs.

During every step, it is absolutely crucial that standards are clearly defined and upheld. If the people see bad actors in their midst, they need to call them out. If one of their own commits a crime, then they need to be condemned and kicked out. If a local, state, or national politician is defying the people, they need to be voted out. If they broke the law then they need to face consequences. If they defy the law, then the people needs to send those specific individuals a message that they are not untouchable. That’s how democracy is supposed to work. Each generations has to actively work to defend it and ensure that the next generation does the same.

So when the next time a MAGA like group forms and tries to take power, they’re shutdown at every avenue. They’re rejected by the people, the opposition, the states, the courts, the media, non profits, celebrities, and even their own party. Anyone who endorses such groups needs to ostracized and the leaders of the next MAGA like group need to be jailed if they attempt to undermine democracy or the law.

This what needs to happen now, but unfortunately the people just don’t care. Society’s apathy is what sleep walked us into fascism, and we need to wake up if we want to get rid of it.

Tolerance is a social contract. Those who would not grant it to others are not protected by it.

We don’t have to tolerate the intolerant.

They are a proven, unapologetic, and ongoing National Security Threat, who have openly, demonstrably engaged in treason, sedition, insurrection, terrorism, extortion, espionage, corruption, pedophilia, murder, and more. We have all seen numerous examples of every one of those crimes.

All politicians take an oath to protect America from national security threats, foreign or domestic, and MAGA definitely falls under the category of domestic threat. Why shouldn’t an organization like that be prohibited from existing, recruiting, and promoting?

By beating them to a pulp Mussolini style

A nice reliant automobile?

Lol shut up, considering the instance you’re from, you probably think that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is justified or that it’s NATO’s fault

The left in the US is broadly so “america bad” that they’ve thrown away their only shred of actual political capital, nationalism, which can well be expressed through desire to actually make America less bad and have a country worth having pride in.

I know we’re pretty far from a country that anyone with half a brain can feel pride in, but our bigger problem is that the bulk of the population has less than half a brain so we need to work within their worldviews.

As long as the left can’t stop lecturing and shaming, we’re going to keep losing ground to people who know how to validate and appease liberal sensibilities.

edit: cry harder, you threw away the flag and America’s actual political capital: the midwit working class liberal masses, they look at you burning the flag that keeps them comfortable, then look at the right-wing nutfucks praying to the flag that keeps them comfortable and says “Hmn, I think I know who has my back.” You have legitimate reasons to hate America, but as Americans we have the responsibility to figure out how to push the country towards a better future. We haven’t done that in a remotely intelligent way. Again, look at what the current state of things are. We are fighting for a country nobody believes we even want. What power is there in that? You kids need to understand power on a much more practical and realistic level.

America throughout it’s history was indeed an amazing example of both cruelty and empathy. America had slavery, but it also fought it’s bloodiest war to free them. It had segregation, but it also had the most iconic civil rights movement in modern history. It invaded many countries, but it also liberated many countries. It had used it’s military power for bad, but it also used it to bring about the global order of free trade and globalism which ushered in the most prosperous time in human history. It had anti-intellectual movements, but it also put people on the moon.

Remembering the positive moments in American history is not “cringe”, that’s such a idiotic line of logic. It’s a reminder that the country should strive to be more positive, more empathetic, more understanding. That’s how societies evolve, and America should rightfully go down the path of bettering itself.

They’ll ramp up their cringy “good guy USA, remember when we were amazing examples of empathy and world aid?” material.

Who is the “they” here who are doing this? The author of the cartoon who is making a blatant anti-Rogan, anti-Musk message? I feel we’ve crossed some wires if we think getting median-voting, semi-patriotic liberals to reject authoritarian propaganda is more harmful than good.

Edit: the difference between people like MAGA and people who want a better world and equality and empathy, is that MAGA rejects nuance and smarter, less comfortable perspectives of the world, including the capacity to shift perspectives to people you don’t relate with. What are YOU guys avoiding looking at in your daily rage-fueled scrolling? What nuance and perspective are you denying because it makes you uncomfortable? We can be the adults in the room and understand a thing without subscribing to a thing.