So...I've made this argument before, but in the age of Trump, it's ESPECIALLY true. The GOP is evil. It's straight up evil. Let's not even try to nuance this stuff. I mean, I try to be nuanced, to see the best in certain belief systems despite their flaws. For a while I believed that beneath whatever ideas we hold dear, we all want the same thing, a better life. Not these frickers. They're literally anti good things and pro bad things.
I know several youtubers have been commenting on medicaid cuts and people saying they're gonna die if they dont stay on medicaid. They dont care. Like really. They. Don't. Care. They don't care if you die. Their model of the world is everyone is entitled to only that which they work for, your life is decided by your productivity in the workforce, and if you can't hack it, you die. They literally believe in social darwinism. Period. End of story.
They want to force everyone to work because they have this protestant work ethic where because their god says that everyone must work, everyone must work. No free loading allowed. Also, blah blah blah, all that stuff about charity to the poor is actually voluntary.
Even if they were for charity, we've seen Christian charity with the protestant work ethic. Work houses, cruel approaches to welfare, and basically making people miserable to make them work. If this were a science fiction society, we would recognize this for what it is, slavery with extra steps. We can watch actual movies like alien romulus where this kind of stuff actually happens in the movies and we understand the characters and we're like "thank God we don't live in a society like that!"
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....really? Fricking really? WE DO LIVE IN A SOCIETY LIKE THAT. LAISSEZ FAIRE CAPITALISM IS LITERALLY THAT. And these guys want laissez faire capitalism with no restrictions on what employers can do to people.
And now we got a new one. MAGA is defending the empire in star wars. BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY WOULD. Modern republicans are are straight up authoritarians. They hate democracy, they want a dictatorship. Of course they would defend palpatine while calling the jedi part of the "deep state." Because push comes to shove, they want dictatorship. 20 years ago when episode 3 came out, I was thinking, gee, this kinda reminds me of bush, ya know, him taking all this extra power in response to a crisis and moving the country toward authoritarianism. And I shifted libertarian in the late 2000s as a result. I was a ron paul stan for a while. It was my first shift out of conservatism as I knew it, but yeah, I kinda recognized what the GOP was doing was bad and that we should push back against it. 20 years later and that authoritarian rot festered into the modern trump movement. And this guy wants to be a dictator. he wants to have a military parade on his birthday like a two bit foreign dictator. He is friendlier to two bit foreign dictators than he is to his own allies. He talks about wanting to take over our allies like canada and denmark (greenland). He's basically allowed Israel to Alderaan the Palestinians. Like, these arent just mere differences in opinion and the best way to achieve "the good life." These guys are evil.
I've said it before, the right doesn't care about many basics of morality that we on the secular left care about. Like reducing suffering. Actual freedom. THey think that suffering is inevitable and they wanna teach resilience instead. They also want to use suffering as a coercive means to push people toward their end of what human life must look like. And what does their idea of human life look like? God, family, and work. You worship god, not just any god, but their fundamentalist christian version of god who is an authoritarian jerk who will send you to hell if you even think something negative about him, no, scratch that, your very existence is a sin in their holy book. You get married young, you pop out babies, who are basically just seen as future workers. And you work your life away. That's life under conservatism. No fun, no actual living. Just, everyone's miserable, everyone spreads misery to others, and good things are bad because they raise peoples' expectations, and bad things are good because people need discipline and coercion to meet the dictates of their dictator god.
Again. Evil. Let's just call it evil. The modern GOP isn't just intellectually bankrupt, it's morally bankrupt. It is getting to the point that it now challenges the very bases of everything good in our society. Some of these guys reject the enlightenment. They literally reject the enlightenment and think we should go back to the ancient ways where society was mostly coercive and dictatorial.
They are the empire of star wars. THe empire was intended to be a force of evil that is so evil that it was comic book levels of bad and any rational person could look at it and say "yeah, that's bad." That's these guys' thing.
And on star wars politics and how it intersects with real politics. I'm not saying the old republic was perfect. I'm not saying that the jedi were perfect. I'm not saying that real world equivalents are perfect either. Obviously, I have problems with society. Theres a huge reason why i had the same populist rage against the dems that the trumpers had in 2016. I just understand that what the trumpers were and are doing isn't helping. Quite frankly, I think the democrats are useless as a political organization and half evil themselves, because all they wanna do is compromise with the evil, not fight it head on with a bold vision of good. So let's not act like there isnt black and white here. There totally is. But again, the primary source of evil in modern society in 2025 is from the right. Not saying left wing factions arent capable of it themselves. Tankies exist, after all. They're evil too. But all in all, let's also not act like this isn't a spectrum, and that for as grey as the left often is, the GOP is almost as dark as it gets. When you start getting people who think hitler and the empire from star wars have the right idea, maybe it's time to ask if you're the baddies. And you are. Sorry, not sorry.
Again, I'm not saying there isnt room for disagreement, Im not saying that only i have a monopoly on all moral truth. I don't. But at some point, you gotta stop saying that you're even trying to be good and the GOP is well beyond that point IMO. They're literally comic book levels of bad.
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