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Wait! I'm not with THEM! There's an unfortunately loud part of the country that is giving the GOP, conservatives, and Americans a bad name. This comm is for the rest of us, the quiet majority. If there is anything worth conserving, it's our values: Respect, Integrity, and Truth.
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We're not all hypocrites. There's plenty, but not all.
I do know a lot of conservatives who looked at how trump is handling the Epstein shit and have admitted they were wrong about him, but I also live in Canada. Dunno what it’s like in burgerland.
Theres an entire spectrum of conservatives, but many of them now consider themselves "independent" or even Democrats at the moment due to the hostile takeover of the Republican party with the slow rolling Southern Strategy.
The vocal MAGA is the loudest segment of conservatism in America right now, and for EVERYONE no matter their political affiliations, it's often easier to see people who disagree with you as a single cohesive entity rather than individuals with nuanced opinions.
Conservatism is a necessary and important part of politics, helping to preserve culture (all culture, but that's a different topic), helping keep and modernize tradition, and forcing progressive elements to carefully and fully bake new policies that benefit everyone. They're the moderator to the progressive catalyst.
The MAGA movement is a radical REGRESSIVE movement towards hyper conservative Authoritarianism, which is of course in the conservative spectrum but isn't consistent with all conservative values.
I'm a firm Democratic Socialist progressive, but I know people who are conservative and have been alienated from MAGA, I also know people who are really more moderate conservatives that have been caught up in MAGA due to the fear and distrust brewed up by the likes of Fox News, Facebook influencers, and worse.
If MAGA people have any chance of coming back to reality we need to better regulate the media, social media, and these people need deprogramming and improved media literacy. Moderate conservatives like the people we find here in this community are a key component and ally in that, and I'm so very tired of having to defend them against attacks from (well meaning) fellow progressives who should be building coalitions with them against this existential threat to us all.
We could be able to regulate traditional media, but regulating the flat earther, antivaxer, Christian fundamentalist on social media might prove to be a bit harder.