I am scared for them all, including my own children. There had better be some kind of reckoning.
*I found Q in the process of researching the FISA abuse stuff. 20 years earlier I had vehemently argued with my now ill friend, that W & Rino, Inc. were justified in enacting the Patriot Act because "Muh Terrorism." Liberals aren't the only people who hate to be proven wrong. ;)
You’re right that some people need to renounce the actions of the early 2000s “Republicans”. I did and it wasn’t fun, but ultimately it was a relief.
Such renunciation won’t get rid of the left/ right paradigm, though. Surveillance state legislation such as the Patriot Act and the creation of the DHS are big government leftism, not “leave me alone” rightism. The Iraq war was leftist military adventurism rather than rightist nonintervention. RINOs are leftists.
Currently, overt leftists in the Democrat party want to fund overseas wars in Ukraine and the middle east, and even start a direct, non-proxy war with Russia. The Democrats are pushing the Big Btother-like hate speech and hate crime legislation. These current Democrat activities so well mirror the RINO activities from twenty years ago because they’re all leftist activities.
Regular people who got duped by leftism may not be our main enemies, but the dupes still need to walk away from the wickedness of leftism to become real allies. I suppose if all of them do so, then the left will disappear and there will be no more paradigm, either.