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LA Protesters Aren’t Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They’re Mobilizing to Stop It
(theintercept.com)
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Always has been.
The cons hate America, hate freedom, and hate the Constitution. Always have.
Do you actually believe that? It's a pretty simplistic view of the situation.
I think if you honestly look at the situation, it's pretty clear to see that conservatives definitely love America, but they have a VERY different idea of what America is and how to make it better. They are working towards that goal of making America better, it's just that their privileged, bigoted, deeply problematic views would produce a truly horrifying version of the US.
The other issue is conservatives seem comfortable using an "ends justify the means" mentality, when the means are evil and the ends are only based on one interpretation of their faith. That kind of thing would certainly bother most progressives, but in their own eyes, they're "doing God's work".
The cons truly hate America, yes. They want America to be something other than what we have in the rule of law and the Constitution as it was actually written and the path that the Founders set us on. They hate a huge swathe of Americans and they hate the notion of others actually having actual freedom.
Not really sure how else to put it. If these people want a hard-right theocracy, they have options they can choose from. If they are trying to turn a secular nation into that, they clearly hate the current system.