How so?
The Trump administration, specifically Donald Trump, his family, leading Republican politicians including senators, congressman and women, representatives, and their base support. They began by firing and removing all remnants of Democratic power, and even their own Republican leaders that they deemed were not on their side. The Republican party has become become racist, fascist, totalitarian, selfish, greedy, xenophobic, radical, and completely devoid and separated from any and all forces of good. They're without compassion. They have no ability to think rationally, to sympathize, to critically think. In short, the Republican (which hasn't represented anything "good" for decades) has reached a point of no return. They have crossed the threshold into ideology. Literally, half of the country has been taken over by radical ideology.
This is a big problem. I cannot possibly state this strong enough. THIS IS A BIG PROBLEM.
Why?
Because once an individual, a family, a group, has been taken over by ideology there is no easy or short fix. It becomes a long term, deadly, and disastrous process of trying to fix and cure this disease from an individual, let alone half of a country.
Ideology is something deeply embedded in a person. Ideology trumps(!) logical reasoning, science, rational thinking, emotion, feeling, empathy, and literally any and every thought and emotion a human is capable of feeling. Ideology is what led to terrorist organization like Hezbollah, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, ISIS, Venezuelan politics, Cambodian massacres, Stalinsm, Nazism, and more.
Ideology even supercedes religion. There is no greater force on Earth than ideology. There is no way to talk a person out of their ideology. You cannot persuade a person to stop following an ideology. Nor can you show them anything that would convince them to stop following an ideology.
So what can we do?
Simple. War. Battle. Blood. I am advocating for any of that, however historically that's the only solution if you want to call it that.
There is one other possibility.
Tame them. This is very, very difficult and requires a strong unification of the Left. It involves overrunning and destroying the ideology of the Right. Fake news, psychological warfare, manipulation, and creating a narrative is required.
Create a narrative of strength on the Left. Of middle-class, blue-collar working folk. Create and adopt strong, masculine symbology. The hammer and sickle. Camo. Hunting. Fossile fuels. Religion. Christianity. We don't turn out backs on our own beliefs and principles, instead, we hijack theirs. Use the farmer, the hunter, the rancher, the tradesmen, the family, the cross, Christianity and play them to our narrative through every media outlet in the country. Mainstream television, cable, YouTube, Twitch, through both shows and advertisements every where online, TV, newspapers, books, podcasts, etc.
The Democratic party must and can adapt and change. It's one of their strengths. The Republican party is not capable of adaption or change in quite the same way. This is has been one of the core issues with the Democratic leadership. They don't want to change, they have been slow, sluggish, and resistant to any change. As a result, the Radical Right has been able to outflank the Democrats and hijack the country through the White House, Senate, and the Courts.
The Democratic party must remove their current leadership and replace them with younger, more agile leaders who have a better grasp on the pulse of the people.
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