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Honestly, I used to feel the same way until I saw what MAGA and the right are really about -- genocide, and because of that, it's impossible for the U.S. left and right to reconcile.
Like I get why people want that -- we really should just be Americans again -- but the things the factions have done to each other, from the left supporting and helping the ruling class impose the lockdowns on everyone else which destabilized the U.S., to the centuries of racism and abuse the right and their ancestors have inflicted on everyone else, are too severe and too reprehensible for the sides to ethically reconcile.
It'd be better if the left pushed to form an independent country, honestly. They almost did when western states threatened to secede from the U.S. because Trump wasn't enforcing the lockdowns to the left's liking. They could wield that power and do it again, and they'd be able to form a military and keep the MAGA cultists away from them, and if the right tries to commit genocide anyway, fight back.
Doing that would also really, really fuck over the ruling class as most of their assets are in U.S. stocks, bonds and dollars which would collapse from such a thing happening, given there'd be no more U.S.
That's just how I feel on the matter given everything I've seen in my life, which is a lot. A lot more than anyone should fairly have to.
Lol I bet you actually believe that paranoid conspiracy theory