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We're always hearing that as an excuse for the government to not do the hard work of governing, and it has brought us to this.
Every society has a swath of psychopaths chomping at the bit to get off the leash and cause chaos and mayhem. A healthy society recognizes this and keeps that ugly slice of humanity under control. But now and then, a country gets distracted, and that ugly slice of humanity grabs their opportunity and takes over. In the mid-20th century it was the Nazis. Today, in America, it's MAGA.
Nothing is better proof of how broken America is than the fact that we allowed MAGA to rise, and take over. We all saw it coming back in 2015/6, and even Republicans were screaming against it. They should have held their ground, but as the final example of how far our nation has fallen, they decided to join instead.
Now we have to dislodge them, which will be a difficult, and probably violent job, and then we have to make the hard decisions to punish them for their crimes. We can no longer kick the can down the road for someone else to deal with, we are the ones who finally have to deal with it now. We are in unprecedented territory, and it will take unprecedented solutions. We can't just fall back on our old strategies of doing NOTHING, and hope it works out. It won't work out, we are living proof of that.