Do you know what is so truly hateful about MAGA? It's not that it's wrong to cheer one's own town, or state, or country. It's not that it's wrong to try and take care of what you care about and love. It's forgetting that we must do MORE than that!
Technology has made our world TOO SMALL. If we can't learn to be humans first, then Americans or Canadians or Chinese or Russians or Tanzanians after that, then because we have given ourselves the means to cause the end of the human experiment on earth, we are very, very likely to do it. Along with millions of other species, too, through no fault of their own.
We have nowhere to go yet -- and we won't for a very long time.
Thus speaks the Humanist.
I think the trouble with Americans (as it has been for quite some time) is that we can't figure out what we want to do with ourselves. We can't figure out what we want to be. We seem to still want to be the leader and defender of the free world, however small it may have become due to technology.
America is also, overall, a wealthy and powerful country, and some Americans seem to revel in that as a source of national pride. But as far as the root wealth, land, and resources which ultimately made America into a great power - that history complicates things a bit, as it does for other wealthy Western powers which acquired their wealth through questionable means.
Of course now, after the Western powers gained so much power and wealth, our political culture has tended towards a more liberal and compassionate consciousness, along with a more robust and often militant attitude in support of individual liberties and civil rights. But the problem is that, liberal or no, wealthy and powerful people still want to remain so. Even if some might be more tolerant, compassionate, liberal, or generous towards others, they will still not give up the keys to the kingdom, not under any circumstances.
I think that's the trap that we're in, at present. We're in a position where we either have to move forward or turn back, but we can't remain where we currently are.