Similar to post WWII Germany & Austria had the Denazification initiative to ride society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of the Nazi ideology. We will need to remove MAGAism from the roots to finally free ourselves.
Originally Posted By u/southernpinklemonaid At 2025-07-13 10:04:30 AM | Source
Well, right now it seems to be going the other way around, as we begin to remove and rewrite American history to our liking -- largely exclud9ing slavery and the near genocide of the native American population, Jim Crow, Civil Right and much more.
Furthermore, we need to address why, as a democracy, we voted for an icon for racism, sexism and incompetence; and what that says about where we are at right now. However, we can't seem to agree on the color of shit once it is known that one is engaging with he opposite side. How can we hope to have such grand conversations when we can't even have the most elementary ones?
I think grand conversations are the problem. I heard a theory that whenever the social consciousness changes too much too fast there’s a breaking point where the more conservative people then reject everything. We moved the needle on social consciousness so fast in recent decades that now a lot of the work is being undone. Unfortunately, I think the most effective playbook to follow after this is in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s strategy for expanding women’s rights through many small victories over a very long time.
That is unless the worst happens with the Civil War II and WW3 double whammy. Then all bets are off.
That's interesting. I think this country was built on massively shifting zeitgeist, from the revolution and all the things it has produced that seemed radical at the time like the declaration of independence and the constitution and its initial amendments; to the recent civil rights movement -- especially with movements like the Black Panthers. Major social zeitgeist shifts have been this countries bread and butter since its very origin.
All of which were met with heavy resistance. Also think about the time between the end of slavery and sharing water fountains. You still can’t say Black Lives Matter without an argument. Think about women’s rights. They got the right to vote after black men, and they still don’t have equal rights written into the constitution. Change happens slowly.