Justice Roberts: "Well, actually, the constitution actually says the last president does take control of the nation's armed forces, so long as he currently lives in a state that isn't north of Virginia. It also specifically says this only counts if he needs to wear suntan lotion while he golfs at his own course, weird."
Because they choose to deny reality, believing we're still back in the later roman era where the church controls all and slaves exist to serve their bidding.
We don't point at the Taliban and say "Oh, the poor, left behind, economically anxious, marginalized rural folk!"
You can't point at Dixiecrats and act like they're some kind of innocent victims in this, they've had a century and a half to actually try to do anything and they've doubled down every time.
GRT is one of the strongest ideological narratives of current racists.
It really should be.
If I was illiterate racist redneck trash in the south, I'd be terrified when decent people who actually believe in work and are far better Christians than I always scream I am show up.
Trash is embarrassed when they're compared next to not-trash.
Take away the electoral votes of the south until they finally sort their shit out.
We never should have given it back to them after reconstruction, the VRA was dismantled because a conservative supreme court said 'it's been in place so long it must have fixed things, and you can't prove it hasn't!' followed by waves of voter suppression throughout the south.
Let's go back to reconstruction and try it again, we shouldn't have stopped, that corrupt bargain in 1877 was a mistake, we just let the plantation class slime right back into power.
It won't become a civil war.
But what it absolutely will become is a bargaining chip: 'yes we lost but give us this or we provoke actual violence', etc, ad nauseum.
We'll need 'demonstrations' for this to reach maximum effectiveness, so they'll arrange them.