Right/left politics and all the useless propaganda that goes with it disgust me, so answering this question is like taking a little bit of poison to build an immunity.
First, let's get real. The hard core fanatics that form the so-called "base" of this particular group have never been more than 52% of the Republican party - and right now Republicans comprise less than 28% of all US voters. The real majority in American politics are those who identify as independents & moderates - 43% and growing. And don't fall for that crap that independents actually "lean" toward one party or another. That illusion grows out of the fact that both parties run closed primaries in most states, and either shut out independents or force them to register a party affiliation in order to even get a ballot.
So what actually burns up most of the time and money in American politics is stoking the jacked-up partisan machinery that creates the weak appearance of being in a majority, or having even a slight claim to moral authority. And in online platforms like this one, that con game is run by every troll with 3 or more alt accounts and countless bots posing as genuine people to feed the echo chamber.
That's not to say there aren't a few real people here and on other sites who post up their radical political beliefs & arguments for anyone who actually gives a damn. But it doesn't take a lot of effort to see that many of those people work off scripts that are fed to them, and that they use politics as a distraction from their own troubled lives, or in some cases as camouflage for full blown personality disorders.
So, based on the evidence over 10 years it's clear MAGA is by almost every standard a cult - not a real politcal movement. And their agenda of using the whole weight of government to advance phony grievances and seek revenge on anyone not in their camp isn't "conservative" - it's paranoid extremism. The damage being done by this pack of losers can be seen everywhere, and what motivates them in every public forum they infest is using all their energy to deny the facts and shift blame.
Yeah, it's all bullshit. And it always has been.
But that doesn't earn Dems or libs a pass on their own breathtakingly stupid assumptions about who Americans are, what we need, and how to build & maintain a country that really works for more than a special few.
So when you ask "... can we all finally agree ... ?", I want to know who you mean, and what you think comes next. If this is just more partisan junk I think I'll pass.
