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I am concerned that the assault on the Capitol is only the start of a series of ever escalating confrontations between the swivel-eyed right wing and the rest of the world.
The Tea Party morphed to the Birthers to MAGA to Q. Momentum is building and the response needs to be met directly. You can’t extend an olive branch to an ideology that isn’t grounded in reality. You can’t compromise with fascism. These populist movements bring nothing to the table that could benefit society, so they have to be stopped...but how?
When their belief is based on fantasy, debunking the myths just entrenches their position. How do we offer an attractive alternative that they can get behind without turning the planet into the hand maids tale/mad max?