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Or is he just a standard politician? Because AOC is a Democrat. Omar is a Democrat. Sanders is a Democrat. Standard politicians are a bipartisan problem, and neither party has what can be considered a clean slate in context of all of American history. •Following the civil rights movement, the majority of people who refused to pretend that a law righting a systemic injustice was somehow also forcing an unjust burden on society were mainly Democrats, but that was also because a lot of people switched parties due to Republicans embracing the southern strategy. The Republican party at the time justified the use of the southern strategy to gain votes. Even though there were some Republicans who had legitimately previously supported desegregation, they ultimately decided winning an election was more important than their own values. •Before the civil war, southern Democrats were primarily the main supporters of slavery and claimed states rights should allow them to continue slavery even after it was abolished. Many southern Democrats actually switched to the Republican party following the Republican party's embrace of the southern strategy. •Since 2025, the Republican party has been weaponizing the federal government to stir up a second civil war, while also undoing what they claim are allegedly "unfair burdens to society and communities." They claim the civil rights act caused these "unfair financial burdens" by forcing public schools to obey the civil rights laws that were created to address discrimination. (It's a bullshit argument, but it's especially fucking dumb when you're also shutting down the department of education, and all other federal resources available to the schools you claim are being unfairly burdened. However, since the actual goal is to destroy America, why expect anything to make any fucking sense). They are also using the civil rights act as a shield to do other bullshit (like demanding states hand over voter registration rolls along with last 4 digits of ssn and drivers license numbers) by claiming it grants the federal government sweeping authority and the right to strip away autonomy from state and local governments. Aside from the fact that anyone should sort of inherently understand the difference between a federal government justifying intervening at a state or local level to protect equality for **all** of it's citizens (bc if a government isn't doing this, then why the fuck do you think it's supposed to exist in the first place?) vs intervening to undo those protections, and violate the constitutional rights and privacy of all of it's citizens. This passive aggressive bullshit also really glosses over the fact that the modern day conservative movement including the roots of Project 2025, can be boiled down to the supreme court and federal government finally telling wealthy individuals who ran private segregation academies, fine, you can continue to discriminate and be shitty but we can't keep giving you tax exemption while you do it. You have to pick one or the other. Two things wealthy people in this country hate more than anything else: 1. Being told they can't be rewarded for discrimination and 2. Paying their fair share of taxes like everyone else. [And so began the past 50+ years of advertising lies, disinformation, and culture wars](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133) which brings us right back into the absolute stupidity that is present day America, and once again on the brink of a civil war. To this very day, [the wealthiest people who continue to exploit and bleed America and all Americans dry while destroying our constitutional rights, civil rights, and civil liberties along with our standard of living, will gladly dump insane amounts of money into an advertising campaign](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/peter-thiel-california-wealth-tax.html) spreading lies and misinformation, in order to fight the "unjust burden" of just paying their fucking taxes and being told they have to follow the law like everyone else.