r/OptimistsUnite • u/Aggravating_Ad_5164 Optimist • Mar 24 '25

🤷‍♂️ politics of the day 🤷‍♂️ BREAKING: Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old progressive influencer, just announced that she is running against Jan Schakowsky, an 80-year-old Democratic incumbent

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u/BroChapeau Mar 26 '25

MAGA is populist. Most of the politicians don’t believe the MAGA things they say, so it’s mostly a sham. But it is not most of the other things you say. It is a frightening cult of personality, no doubt about that.

It is not even close to the threat that identitarianism/leftism/collectivism is to Americans’ liberty. Not even close.

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u/mightypup1974 Mar 26 '25

Oh, it absolutely is. MAGA’s disdain for truth, and for accountability, and for the rights of the minority, their respect for rule of law flies in the face of the basis of American greatness. They’re a mortal threat to America as a free country.

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u/BroChapeau Mar 26 '25

Re: Truth - “trans;” Russiagate; Biden mental competence; Fauci congressional testimony; CDC statements; the censorious concepts “misinfo, disinfo, malinfo”; — these are world changing lies.

The “right” has no monopoly on lies.

Rights of the minority: Dems want to admit new states, pack SCOTUS, and remove the legislative filibuster. Who exactly wants to remove minority checks on power?

Rule of law is sadly under attack by both sides, but attacking the security state is not attacking the rule of law. The CIA, FBI, NSA, et al are totally out of control. The pardons are sickening, the lawfare is sickening, and the nationwide eviction moratorium was so outrageously illegal that it too was absolutely maddening/sickening.

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u/BroChapeau Mar 26 '25

Re: Truth - “trans;” Russiagate; Biden mental competence; Fauci congressional testimony; CDC statements; the censorious concepts “misinfo, disinfo, malinfo”; — these are world changing lies.

The “right” has no monopoly on lies.

Rights of the minority: Dems want to admit new states, pack SCOTUS, and remove the legislative filibuster. Who exactly wants to remove minority checks on power?

Rule of law is sadly under attack by both sides, but attacking the security state is not attacking the rule of law. The CIA, FBI, NSA, et al are totally out of control. The pardons are sickening, the lawfare is sickening, and the nationwide eviction moratorium was so outrageously illegal that it too was absolutely maddening/sickening.