@Huntn00 @dedicto @mastodonmigration @alice As I've been saying for a while now, the core motivation for conservatives and their entire ideology is no more complex than malignant selfishness. That is why MAGA idolizes Trump, because they all share that selfish motive, and selfishness is a literal crime against egalitarian society. Can you imagine how well ant colonies would function if any colony members were selfish? Those colonies would perish (and that is why there's no selfish ants). Even if we don't or can't make selfishness a legal crime, we need to put it back in the pre-Trump cage that was previously its home and put an end to the Paradox of Tolerance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_democracy