Why? Because MAGA has stated their intent to defund the police – that is, the police who exist to protect minority groups from right wing terrorism.
It will begin with the fourth reich’s Project 2025 which, among other things, aims to neuter federal law enforcement as we know it – most importantly, those arms of federal law enforcement whose purpose it is to investigate disinformation campaigns, oversee fair elections, and defend American minority groups, educators, and poll workers against domestic terrorism. It openly states its goal of one-party rule.
What does this mean for the rest of us, whom MAGA fascists deem to be inferior, not fully human, and not even worthy of being counted in the census?
Since MAGA’s plans include giving a brutal dictator total control over federal law enforcement, it spells a future in which the non-MAGA, especially minority groups, will have absolutely no legal recourse against hate crimes and acts of domestic terrorism. The MAGA fascists will have created a fact: the Second Amendment will become “our last defense against tyrannical government,” as the right wing has been fond of saying for decades.
They openly state their intention to become the tyrannical government that they’ve been telling us about.
Does this sound like hyperbole? The libertarian Cato Institute makes a compelling case for that aspect of Second Amendment rights. As a libertarian myself, I have maintained for 30 years that the right to self-defense is an inherent right – including the collective inherent right to defend ourselves against brutal tyranny.
Make no mistake: MAGA is pursuing a world in which minority groups who are targeted for harassment and terrorist threats will have nowhere to turn. Educators who vow to teach science rather than superstition, and inclusion rather than hate, will have no legal protections against harassment and threats by violent extremists whatsoever.
The Second Amendment will become our only defense against this kind of victimization, which is why I have maintained for decades that if any government ever “comes to take our guns away,” it will be a government run by the right wing.
In other words, MAGA.
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I had a penpal in Russia who went to university in Ukraine and received her teaching degree but wasn’t allowed to teach when she returned because her views didn’t align with her government. If it weren’t for her son’s income she would have starved. I lost contact with her after she had the nerve to call the war a war. Her name was Tatiana and she suddenly didn’t know the answer to our secret password that we had incase her website was taken over. She had been called into court three times by then. Thanks for creating this blog.
Happy to! And yep, that’s absolutely MAGA.