Is the MAGA Movement Honestly Fracturing?

Maybe. Or maybe the ones cracking it apart don't have a choice.

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Regarding yet further the uh conservative Civil War or the uh right wing civil war, I got a few more thoughts that come up to me. So I think about the big provocateurs that are going on and causing all the big fuss. You got Tucker Carlson, you got Candace Owens, Nick Fuentus, there's probably a bunch of other names that I'm not even thinking of right now. And I'm not gonna go into their claims. I'm actually gonna I'll call it an ad-hominem attack. Where I'm just gonna question whether they're actually the sort of people we should trust in these situations, if they are the ones whose words we should take. So I just think back myself to a kid in grade school that I knew, and he was a little bit of a troublemaker and a little bit of a slacker, and so he got the bad grades and he got in trouble, and you know, you everybody knows somebody a bit like that. But I was assigned to tutor him. So now, of course, he had the advantage of my brains and my behaviors, and we could talk about the best ways to get along in the school, he could talk about things he didn't understand, and then but ultimately, no matter what I did, no matter how I tried to tutor him, he insisted on getting in trouble because that was what he chose, and it wasn't until many, many, many, many years later that I learned about these things called habits and all these things called incentives. And sometimes the uh habit is just what you default to because it gets you what you want. And for a lot of troublemaker kids, not all of them, but a lot of them, what they want is the attention that they feel they deserve that they aren't getting. So, where that brings me back around to all of the discord in the right-wing movement, has actually got me thinking about the characters of the people who are causing this civil war. And in particular, why they are saying to vote Democrat to teach the conservatives lesson. Keep in mind that a lot of these people, and this it does include Tucker Carlson, they are not actually necessarily conservative, meaning conservative-minded people. What they are is provocateurs. Now, when you have a power structure in place that needs to be held to account, yeah, you want people who are willing to stand up, they're brave and bold and say, hey, perhaps this should be done different. But what happens when they get the different that they said they asked for? What is there to encourage them to, I don't know, be content? Well the answer is not as much as the attention that they get from continuing to bitch and moan about the current state of affairs. Because, see, they might not be incentive to oh to be at peace, to approve of things. Some people, when they get everything they say they want, throw it away because as soon as they get it, there might be this fear inside of them that well, if I'm content now, I lose all the attention that I had before. If I'm content now, then I risk actually losing my influence. And since I am based on discontent, if I instead flip sides and say I'm holding the other side to account now, even you know, because no side's perfect, I can find things to nitpick, then I'll be seen as a turncoat and a rival and a you know, maybe a hero of now the new outside party. And that's the problem that provocateurs will have, is that they look upon the world as something to be provoked, not as a place with problems that can be solved. So I think that's what's going on. So maybe, maybe this civil war among the right wing of politics needs to happen because some people need to be held to account. But maybe, just maybe, this ain't actually about policy at all. It's actually about the people who can't imagine not being pissed off and in the spotlight. Cheers.