MAGA is a Tar-Baby
Don't forget who invited it.
I've been trying to make this point to my born-again anti-Trump Republican colleagues and friends of which I have many; sometimes gently, often bluntly. Here it is; right here in the article cited below. Some of the biggest complainers INVITED and instigated this plague of ignorant, angry miscreants. Liz Cheney fits this and we have national AND local pols who fit it, too. They were HAPPY to have the nutter votes whenever they thought it benefited their self-interest. "If you're not with us, you're against us !!" Woo hoo !! They were HAPPY to stigmatize and hate "socialists" (while driving on the Interstate highway system) and "the woke" and "libruls" and "the Left" and "public schools" and "the dirty unions" and "the gay agenda" and "the government" and "libraries peddling porn" when they thought it in their personal interest. They were happy to support an ideology that advocated shrinking the government small enough that it could be "drowned in a bath-tub." (Grover Norquist). They were DELIGHTED to feed the January 6 jackals when they thought it benefited them. They were happy to look back to a 100% fictional past from which we'd alledgedly "make American great again." And they voted with Trump or the Trump "roadmap" again and again. They invited it. Buyer's remorse is what we're seeing from some. And the rest still cringe shamelessly in his sloppy shadow.
MAGA is a tar-baby. Good luck getting it off of us. But don't forget who invited it.
https://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheney-voted-donald-trump-93-percent-congress-1734186
I don't disagree with those comments about Trump. And you point out very well the war/corporate aspects of both, hence really a uniparty thst gives solely an illusion of choice. And yes, many citizens do not vote. Why is that? Are they too lazy or too busy watching reality TV? Or perhaps they don't vote because with the uniparty they get the same shit sandwich no matter how they vote. Punish them because they refuse to be conned yet again? Hardly just, I think. Perhaps if the voted in a "fuck all of them" category and was actually tabulated you could make a case, albeit a weak one. Perhaps getting away from a "first past the post" system would be an answer with independent candidates, such as RFK. But you don't like him either. Fair enough but what about a lot of independent candidates?
I get that you think Trump is vulgar, a narcissist, a threat to democracy, etc. etc. Likely all true. But we've arrived at a stage of the American republic when we have Trump vs his competitors, the latter being the Democrats with Harris and Walz with their endless warmongering and efforts to exert even more control over the freedoms that we used to take for granted. I think we are all missing a crucial observation. Namely, that roughly half the voters in the country are going to vote for Trump. Why? Are they all neo Nazis or white supremacists? Not likely. Have you considered why Trump appeals to so many? What's missing here? At the same time you denigrate Kennedy and consider him a kook. So, Ken, what's your solution to this dystopian mess? Is there one?