Editing Social Enlightenment Thought (section)

=== Post-MAGA Landscape ===
*There may be a silver lining to the unprecedented disaster of the MAGA administration. Through its abuse of democracy, its mass-scale corruption, its unilateral autocracy, like volcanic soil post-eruption, its destruction is ''breeding'' growth in its place.<br>
*It has 1. exposed the most glaring vulnerabilities in our system, 2. has reduced the Republican party to shambles, and 3. has proven that change (in this case, for the worst) is possible, meaning that change in a forward direction should also be possible.<br>
*However, the critical point is that the opportunity means nothing if we don't rise to the occasion and seize it. We ''cannot'' return to business as usual after this. That would only mean that we've learned nothing, and that consequently, we've only proven ourselves to be a lost cause.
*Instead, its opposition must demand more, mass accountability for the criminals in authority (Nuremburg 2.0), massive overhaul so that this may never happen again, and a rebuilding of the country as a union (Reconstruction 2.0).
*While the Democrat party has not successfully risen above its strawmen (as "far-left radical progressives" by the right and "equivalent bourgeois-evils" by the actual left), the next blue candidate now has both the means and the responsibility to change everything.
*They must first unite the country under its most universal frustrations and demands (lack of trust in its parties, the challenges of the low-middle/working class, frustration of cronyism and demand for equal opportunity meritocracy). They must garner the support to overcome the special interests of the status-quo, they must enable a new path forward, and they must use their power to limit their power and the power of all their following successors.
*If successful, this nightmare may just be the launching point for America to fully actualize the potential it was born with. If not, we've spiritually doomed ourselves. These are the stakes.