MAGA

MAGA

The first question--what is going on? Then, what can we do about it?

One of the several belief systems that drive MAGA (and its equivalent in other nations) is white nationalism.  

The tea party and then MAGA erupted from a class of white men. often working men, who  weren't getting anywhere, and no one was listening.

These voters believed that they meant little to the Clintons' Democratic Party or the plutocratic Republican party.

They had a point. 

Money flowed from far-right billionaires to expand the unrest. 

Some MAGA leaders turned against democracy, which they believe allows a manipulative elite to screw them. They were encouraged in this belief by a manipulative elite.

In Donald Trump voters found  a candidate with the right personality disorders to represent their cognitive weaknesses. 

The Democrats reacted by moving their party to the center-right, when MAGA was looking for revolutionary change.  The Democrats failed and continue to fail today.

MAGA took over the Republican Party.

The strongest MAGA supporters today are those afraid of diversity. City MAGAs fear being replaced by the masses of people they see around them: Latinos, Jews, black people and (worst of all) women. 

MAGA's goal (for some) is to destroy the old system and create a new system. To do that they must tear down the old institutions, including norms and traditions,  the public schools, Harvard,  UCLA, NBC, scientific health care, the CIA, the courts, the Constitution, the military leadership, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the FBI,  libraries, PBS, whatever. 

The new system (some say) should adopt a corporate format. The nation should be run like a corporation with a CEO in charge. He will act as a dictator, answerable only to super-rich sponsors on a board of directors. The purpose of this set-up will be to speed up the transfer of money from the poor to the super-rich.  

Meanwhile, MAGA voters enjoy something powerful, a warm sense of community with one another as they rip apart the evils of pedophilia,  education, Hollywood, math, science and so on.  

Voters are choosing chaos and catastrophe.  

This has happened before. The western system, fell apart twice in the past, during the Bronze Age collapse and during the collapse of the top-heavy Roman Empire.  

If we want to keep our system , we'd better start working things out.  It's a choice.