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Colorado man arrested 2 days before waging "war" against Elon Musk, Trump appointees
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Killing people for how they vote is killing democracy. Those MAGA lunatics aren't your enemy, they're your fellow citizens who fell victim to radical propaganda. When the Trump regime finishes their coup, they're going to be suffering just like the rest of us.
The way to solve the problem is to win them over, and show that a dictatorship is not good for America. Attacking Tesla and Musk is how you prevent other billionaires from supporting the MAGA hate cult, but it's not how you win over MAGA voters. Taking it to the logical extreme by killing people isn't going to make it work either.
I don't know how to win all the MAGA people back, but I know violence won't do it. If anything, it'll cement their existing views.
"Those MAGA lunatics aren’t your enemy, they’re your fellow citizens who fell victim to radical propaganda." I live in Canada, they're not "my" citizens. And as for not knowing how to win all the MAGA people back without violence, you simply can't.
Not a single person who split from the MAGA cult did so by being convinced by their fellow citizens. Not one. It is their decision and theirs alone. They would have to be personally impacted by the consequences of Trump's policies in order to see the error of their ways. But even then those are very rare cases.
Let's look at the numbers. 62 million Americans voted for Trump in 2016, followed by 74 million in 2020 and 77 million last year. It only goes to show that the cult is growing in popularity. Again, you can't win over these people with words. They can and most certainly will resort to murder and violence when backed into a corner. Fascism and violence are inseparable. And violent resistance to fascist violence doesn't make you as bad as the fascist. Ask Bomber Harris.