Here’s the education of the guy who heads the think tank that made this bullshit up:

Roberts earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a Master of Arts in history from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in American history from University of Texas at Austin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Roberts_(academic)

So basically, a history professor with 3rd rate qualifications from 4th rate universities.

No experience or knowledge in politics whatsoever.

If this is the garbage that actually sparks off the next US civil war, I will lose my fucking mind at the stupidity of it all.

If you take them at face value, 1-3 sound like positive goals - I know they’ve been complelty twisted into terrible shit.

Here’s what I belive they should be.

1. I don’t care what kind of family you have (lgbtq++ or not), but children need to raised properly. While there’s a million ways to do it, the “ipad” kid isn’t one of them. To me “Centerpeice” means creating an economy/socity where people actually want to raise kids again - from better living wages, reduce the cost of good, housing costs, proper heath care, and work schedules that allow the parents to actually raise the kid. A stay-at-home parent should be optional for the family, thats not so easily acomplished in today’s economy
2. There’s certently an issue with our goverment administration, from the billions unaccounted for at the pentagon to the town not-elected sherrifs/officals who have zero accountability. That has to be fixed.
3. Defend the boarder, only let people in legally, and don’t let randoms from any where in the world. If people really are sneaking in by the truck load like they say - what’s stopping someone with a major crimal record of violence from enterering the nation and attacking people. Inaddtion, if we’re going to do major humanitarian projects to help refuges, we need to focus on our own homeless and struggling citizens as well.
4. Take religion out of the conversation. But, for the most part we do have a lot of freedoms - if you can afford them. In theory, you can live where ever you like, work where ever you like, marry whom you like, and say what you like. In practice, it’s difficult to break generational poverty. People can’t move because they need the money to support their family. Let’s sat your pop was making enough money for your whole family 10 years ago, but now your pop got sick and can’t work, you and your siblings still in school, and your mom is struggling to find anything more than $10/hour because minimum in her state is still $7.25. Government aid is doing just enough for you to keep pop alive, you to eat and keep the house for now. Be careful if drop out of school to start working full time, they’ll drop the aid by double whatever you make so you loose the house if you work, but can’t save for anything if you don’t work.

Not really sure where I was going with 4…but that needs to be fixed.

Wow. Thanks. With your summary and the titles alone I can make sense of that manifesto:

1. Define families properly to include all colours of families. Make them (the people) more important than corporate greed and capitalism. Make sure their children have access to education. And care for them if their parents aren’t well off.

2. The state has no business dictating people’s reproductive rights, choices in gender issues and religion. Instead they need the state to provide infrastructure to them, healthcare etc to enable them to achieve what they want individually. People need the freedom not to get shot on the streets or at school by some lunatic. And democracy in the USA is broken. Governance by the people needs true choices. Less lobbyism, gerrymandering and childish behaviour in the senate.

3. Make good choices in a globalized world. Sustainable politics. Trade and be friends with your neighbours and other friendly nations. If you want to be strong, you better have friends and also show them they’re worth something to you.

4. Freedom and Liberty? That’s a pretty straightforward proclamation to celebrate LGBTQ+ people, women etc as god made them. I’d say that extends to anyone and all the diversity and richness of life. And include welfare programs for the disadvantaged, as God and the founding fathers wanted equal opportunity. And the USA currently only cares for the rich. Contradicting any of Jesus’ teachings.

Nope. They found out most folks are cool with the gays, educated people found out the “blacks commit crime” is actually “poor people commit crime”, everyone uses thc, we’re increasingly done with religion, media is representative of more than white cowboys who can only grunt “I’m manly!”, and we are friends with aethiests, hindis, muslims, and jews.

Therefore we are obviously insane and have to die.

They never really did.

It was all, always, just about themselves. They claimed to love the country because they just saw it as a rightful extension of themselves, and they claimed to love democracy because they just saw it as the process by which they got what they wanted.

Now that they’re faced with the fact that the country necessarily also accommodates other people and that democracy means that other people can get what they want, they have no reason left to pretend that they ever really valued either one.

So they’re instead diving headfirst into xenophobic fascism, in the hope that they can recreate a world in which the country exists only for them and the government serves only their interests.

Democracy is only good when you’re getting what you want.

When you’re losing, its the Tyranny of the Majority, and it has to be stopped at all costs.

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Most rural towns would be dead in a month if a civil war happened. All those towns produce is meth, teenage pregnancy, and fibromyalgia disability. When the Dollar General runs out of food they will start killing each other.

I can see a few banjo clans attempting to invade cities and set up roadblocks.

The reality of it all is that rural/conservative America is already involved in a proxy civil war with the rest of america. They are using the Republican politicians as weapons to steal our tax dollars and funnel it into their failed existence while they pretend their gasoline corn is something good for the world.

Before the civil war southerners talked shit about northerners as too comfortable and effete to fight.

After, too. The shit talking never really ended. It’s been 160 years of smack.

Have you seen the average repub?

I mean, I’m not that old but I am out of shape but it doesn’t take a lot of effort to use a sniper rifle. I can just sit on a hill and pick off every red flag wielding red hat I see.

All right Johnson, HR has decided that you can pick one day a week to war from home, but you’re only going to get halftime pay for that.

Do not underestimate Trump. The last time people did that he won the damned election.

We’re a constitutional Republic, dipshit. We’re not even a true democracy and calling us the oldest when there are PUBS older than our country is ridiculous. We are YOUNG.

You can pilot the flamethrowing robo-dogs for us.

Get passports for yourself and family now. After the election (if he wins) I’m guessing there’s gonna be a huge backlog.

Getting the fuck what?

I am a veteran of two wars, first priority is getting my kids out somewhere safe. Doubt I would come back after that. Will cheer for you all, but with republicans existing the USA just doesn’t even feel worth fighting for.

Every single person who votes Trump is a traitor. Yeah, you, that random person (not the guy I am replying to) who is reading this and voting Trump. Fuck you, traitor.

I’ll go back to Europe where my ancestors came from

You’re going to be in for a shock.

Fair enough, do you think a some person would fight in a civil war?