International backup day today apparently. Done it, good. Maybe I should do it more than once a year.
I’ve been trying to understand maga and what they believe, but I don’t get it. It seems to be defined entirely by what they don’t want, rather than any idea of what they do.
Mainly, it seems to be about exceptionalism, that USAians are somehow intrinsically superior and uniquely suited to running the entire world. Why and how is not clear, it just seems to be an accepted belief.
Then there’s “owning the libs”. Liberals favour consensus and reality based policies. Climate change, LGBTQ+, public transport, sustainability, this sort of stuff. Maga rejects all of these things. Because the libs are in favour.
If anything, they genuinely seem to blame these policies for all their perceived problems in the world. They believe that being nasty to the gays will improve the economic performance of the country. Or that shouting aggressively in people’s faces is the best form of diplomacy, it’s just that nobody has tried this before.
It’s all so incoherent. We get decades of dogma about “free markets”, now it’s overt protectionism and they cheer along without missing a beat. Endless calls for tax cuts, then huge rises, all greeted enthusiastically. The latter is rationalised by the government itself that “tariffs are a tax cut”.
I find it all so hard to understand because none of it makes sense.
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