The dirty secret about American politics is that people care about any of that stuff only to the extent that it supports their actual ideological goals. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, state's rights, all of it. They want it for them, and don't care if anybody else has it _at best_, and actively want to take it away from others at worst.

Documents like the Declaration and Constitution only get written after centuries of bloodshed that we are far removed from, and people forget why anybody cared about such abstract principles to begin with.

Na, the libertarian right just wants to make money without laws first... then be authoritarians.

Its collapse / take-over / mask-off over the last decade (interpretations vary) has been very disappointing.

I mean, FFS, what kind of principled third-party invites the authoritarian "opposition" candidate as the keynote speaker to their convention?

Good news! There’s a progressive left that cares very much about widespread suppression of civil liberties!

Contrary to common misconception, you don’t lose your tech bro man card if you join them!

The best part is that you also shed the physics-defying libertarian viewpoints that largely make no sense.