MAGA candidates for elective office share a common goal. They want to install tyrannies in the Presidency, Congress and some State governments. They want to rule without constraints on their behavior.
The MAGA January 6 Insurrection suggests that once the MAGA GOP has power, it will not recognize any election they lose; and, the MAGA GOP will not leave office without force.
I was born and raised in the United States where the Rule of Law ensured respect for other people. I find it difficult to imagine what the country might be like when our elected officials disregard the law and govern for their personal benefit.
Here’s some of what that means:
As Americans we just assume the we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; after all, it’s in the Declaration of Independence.
MAGA Tyrants with power do not recognize your ‘right’ to life or any other ‘rights’. To a Tyrant, your life is a privilege granted to you by the State and the State can take your life for any reason the State deems necessary. You exist to serve the State. Your body is State Property.
Your liberty is also a privilege granted by the State and not a ‘right.’ The State allows you to behave until it deems your behavior ‘dangerous’. When that happens you become an enemy of the State [see POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS below].
The State has no obligation to provide you with happiness.
WAR
MAGA respects power without limits. When in power, they can reduce the USA’s support for democratic nations and favor other tyrants.
The GOP will withdraw the USA from NATO and end support for Ukraine. Most likely Russia will then expand the war to all of Ukraine and several other countries. Perhaps Russia will try to take back the former Soviet States of Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.
CULTURE WARS
Hatred toward miscellaneous groups is encouraged by MAGA Billionaires as a means to distract some of the people from the real causes of their angst, namely the extreme greed of the few and the extraordinary differences between the rich and the people.
After all, it is hard to think about Billionaires when you’re incensed that a trans child wants to play sports in school. Or, it’s even harder when you’re afraid that Black people will enter your house and kill you.
Sometimes the hate directs toward specific classes and races of the people. Ethnic cleansing and concentration camps encourage this hatred. German NAZI’s demonized Jews in the run up to World War II; their ultimate solution was to kill all Jews in concentration camps.
ABORTION and DEAD BABIES
There is no ‘right to abortion’ for women. Women’s bodies are State property and the State decides what happens to a woman. When giving birth in a state supported hospital, the life of the mother is secondary to the life of the baby; some mothers may die while the State takes care of the children.
Some mothers will give up their babies to an orphanage. Some of the children die in State care. This happened in Ireland in semi-official Catholic Hospitals.
Here’s some history: ‘On a balmy summer day, the site of the children’s mass grave in Tuam appears deceptively bucolic. There are no crosses or tombstones in the walled patch of grass. Butterflies flit over shrubs. Robins cheep from branches. It’s peaceful.
“They are two-feet down from where we are standing,” Catherine Corless said. “The bones have mingled together and water got in and thrashed them around. But they’re there.” ‘.
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/a-stain-on-irelands-conscience-tuam-home-for-unmarried-mothers-gives-up-grimmest-of-buried-secrets]
POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS
Tyrants do not accept political discussions. Political discussions can create dissent and resistance.
Example – FLORIDA under De Santis
The State under De Santis uses the law to attack Disney for a political discussion.
[https://www.reuters.com/world/us/florida-governor-desantis-moves-nullify-disney-efforts-circumvent-state-2023-04-17/]
Example – CHILE under PINOCHET
In Chile the Army threw political opponents from planes, army admits
[https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/nosubscription/outrage-in-chile-clothing-celebrating-pinochets-dictatorship-death-flights-put-up-for-sale-online/]
Example - RUSSIA under PUTIN
Putin came to power using murder as a political weapon. With no legal constraints MAGA GOP may do the same thing in the United States. Putin’s list is long.
[https://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-people-putin-is-suspected-of-assassinating-2016-3]
Example - HONG KONG
Hong Kong’s leader vows to pursue eight individual activists ‘for life’ over alleged national security offences. He offers rewards for the names and addresses of political enemies regardless of where the offenders reside.
The US State Department … called on the Hong Kong government to withdraw the “bounty” and stop the international assertion of the national security law.’
[https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/04/hong-kong-leader-vows-to-pursue-8-overseas-activists-for-life.html]
Example - SAN FRANCISCO
Paul Pelosi, husband of House Majority leader Nancy Pelosi, was attacked by an intruder with a hammer in his home.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Paul_Pelosi#:~:text=On%20October%2028%2C%202022%2C%20an,in%20Pacific%20Heights%2C%20San%20Francisco]
INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY
Tyrants want judges who do what they’re told by the tyrant regardless of the law. Tyrants appoint sympathetic judges while trying to remove an independent judges.
Example - UNITED STATES
A democratic country’s court system can serve as a check on tyrant’s actions. Today MAGA are trying to reduce the independence of US courts. MAGA will try to appoint malleable judges and frighten away any independent judges.
‘Threats against federal judges have spiked 400% in the past six years, to more than 4,200 in 2021. Of 583 local health departments surveyed by Johns Hopkins University researchers, 57% reported that staff had been targeted with personal threats, doxing, vandalism, and other forms of harassment during the pandemic. Nov 4, 2022’
[https://time.com/6227754/political-violence-us-states-midterms-2022/#:~:text=Threats%20against%20federal%20judges%20have,of%20harassment%20during%20the%20pandemic]
The Supreme Court has lost respect by its political decisions and by severe ethics violations accepting favors from Billionaires.
[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/06/clarence-thomas-secretly-accepted-gifts-gop-donor/11612865002/]
Example – HUNGARY under ORBAN
‘Viktor Orbán’s grip on Hungary’s courts threatens rule of law, warns judge.
Csaba Vasvári’s claims of ‘overreach’ follow freeze on EU funds over concerns about judicial independence
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/14/viktor-orban-grip-on-hungary-courts-threatens-rule-of-law-warns-judge]
POLITICAL CORRUPTION
Tyrants want the ability to sell state property or grant favors and put the money in their pocket.
Example – TRUMP
DeJoy owns a package delivery service that competes with the USPS. Trump appoints him to run the USPS in exchange for cash ‘campaign contributions’.
More examples here: [https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/15/trump-cabinet-officials-in-ethics-scandals.html]
VOTING RESTRICTIONS
UNITED STATES by State
Since most people don't vote for MAGA candidates, MAGA will make it harder to vote
'Republicans are focused on voter ID rules and making it harder to cast mail ballots, while Democrats are seeking to expand access through automatic voter registration.'
[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/us/politics/voting-rights-laws-states.html]
