I believe that Democrats/Liberals/Progressives need to face the absolute fact

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13. The Tea-hadists want to destroy taxation and the regulatory agencies

A bankrupt, toothless federal government is a perfectly good outcome for them.

Those two things would destroy the nation as we know it.

And THAT is exactly what the Christian Dominionists want, because a non-functional, bankrupt, toothless government is the precursor that they need to make their great play to toss the Constitution and put in place a conservative dictatorship under the guise of God's Will.

It's all about power. Destroying federal power, and establishing the power of a christian dominionist tyranny.

So other reasons can be considered rationally based on what we've already seen about the radical tea-party faction and the fascist christian dominionists who now control the Speakership, and the conservative bloc on scotus.

Of course, the play by the elite requires lebensraum for the elite. And that will be provided by the likes of the useful idiots who will proceed on the assumption that destruction of social cohesion through promoting social asymmetries through discrimination by race, religion, gender, and wealth will promote a return in their lives of a mythical good-life.

But nothing much will change. Those empowered to make the rules, will Rule