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It wasn’t the MAGA movement that started dismantling Western culture in the US. That’s been happening from Leftist criticism for generations.
by zmgsabst 2y ago
It wasn’t the MAGA movement that started dismantling Western culture in the US.
That’s been happening from Leftist criticism for generations.
- mmooss 2y ago> That’s been happening from Leftist criticism for generations. I'm talking about the principles: freedom, rights, and self-determination as self-evident, essential goods; progress as essential and good (real progress, not padding bank accounts); knowledge as the way humans can change their world; and knowledge provided by science and scholarship. The left has criticized many things as lacking in knowledge and threats to freedom and rights, and the institutions, but not these principles. > It wasn’t the MAGA movement that started dismantling Western culture in the US. It was a branch of conservatives before them, but MAGA has fully embraced it. Look at the denial of freedom and human rights, replaced by a naked, aggressive embrace of oppression and cruelty. Look at the contempt for those things and progress, in the name of power. Look at replacing science with ideological disinformation - at even aggressively destroying science - even when it costs millions of lives, such as during a pandemic. How much blood is on their hands - how many needless deaths? Nobody talks about it.
- oblio 2y agoDo you mean academic Marxists or something? Their impact outside of minor student circles has been 0. And for sure none of those are MAGA or Le Pen or AfD voters...