We live in a blossoming dictatorship, a fading capitalist empire. Radical Leftists have long recognized the imperative of seeing through the ideological illusion of ‘everything is fine except for a few bad actors.’ However for most liberals, it’s a very confusing period. I see versions of the same question online everyday: how could this happen? Or another: how can the current regime say and do such terrible things? Sadly, some Utopian Leftists have also of late been regularly playing this simpleminded little morality game, a disingenuous lament that cries it’s the end of the world as we know it. You hear it from soap box podiums all the time. In the Leftist example, mostly ineffective outrage is the result, rather than the dumbfounded wonder of Liberalism. But either way, it’s the lack of foundational answers that seems to have everyone in a bind.
All these mental gymnastics are largely unnecessary, because in this particular case, the electoral political machine of Amerika as it has come to be in 2025, the answer is actually rather straightforward - for over a hundred years evangelical conservatives have been very good at setting their sectarian differences aside in order to achieve a common goal.
That goal is white patriarchal power.
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