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Why is maga so stupid 😭
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Anonymous 11w

A Cult of personality is a very authoritative weapon wielded by people with wealth and power. The founding fathers specifically disagreed with personality cults. Some people who have a personality cult are Hitler, Xi Xinping, Kim Jung Un, Donald J. Trump, and Javier Milei. That paired with populism and a country with no direction will always choose a strong man even if it puts them further from the wants of the constituents.

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Anonymous 11w

MAGA is stupid because the only people able to "fall" for Trump's semantics are actual idiots. That's just a product of the republican party's values: lack of respect towards education and their approach to "conserving" which just prevents them from understanding and learning.

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Anonymous 11w

They’re to tired to think after getting bottomed out by trump

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Ultra nationalism is also a factor

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

I won’t comment about the rest of your post but the idea of conservatism as an ideology is to preserve traditional values and ways of living. In an ever changing modern world in the richest most powerful country in human history, This approach tends to appeal to me less than a progressive approach. All it does it allow others to surpass us while we remain in the past. Culture is not permanent, it’s always changing. You can’t preserve it like you imagine. I say this as an aspiring anthropologist.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

We have the same views here, I think you may have misinterpreted my words. I agree with everything you said in this comment and your other one.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

Maybe you weren't trying to argue though, and that's admirable!

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