Most of us have friends or family who are MAGA. They spend all their time watching Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, or on social media with Facebook and Reddit. They’ve fallen down meme-rabbit holes, they support QAnon and PizzaGate and J6Gate and “Hunter Biden’s Laptop” or whatever.
It’s bad out there, we all know it is.
The entire problem is that these people support the destruction of other people’s lives. They support Mass Deportation, they support Christian Nationalism, they support LGBTQ persecution, they support Gender Censorship, Historical Censorship and religious indoctrination.
It’s not just a difference of opinion. It’s a completely different moral compass. Most of us believe that people are individuals, that they should be held responsible for their own individual choices and actions. We believe that justice requires presuming someone is innocent until legal and constitutionally valid evidence proves them guilty.
This may be generalizing, but I don’t think most MAGAs give a shit about any of that. They’re incapable of empathy for anyone unlike themselves. Most of them revel in other people’s suffering, and the ones who don’t — those who only supported him for economic reasons — didn’t find that any of that suffering to be a deal breaker. They blame other people for all their problems and refuse to take responsibility for anything. They get upset when we say that they’re “Racist” and “Fascists,” but I actually think they’re something worse. They’re Confederates. People with their mindset taught the Nazis how to be bigots and commit genocide. Hitler learned it all from the KKK, Manifest Destiny, the original “America First” and Eugenics movements, which massacred the Native Americans, enslaved, mass imprisoned, persecuted, tortured, terrorized and mass murdered Africans with impunity and used to perform forced sterilization on Asians, Latinos and Eastern Europeans. All that happened right *here* for centuries. Some of it is still happening.
MAGAs believe in collective guilt and punishment. They believe that certain types of people, from other nations, with other religions, with different sexual or gender preferences, with different ideologies or political perspectives, are to be treated as if they are all the same, are all “out to get them”, and are guilty of being in some kind of wild criminal-socialist-terrorist conspiracy. If just one of them has done something wrong, all the rest of them are somehow also responsible and guilty.
The entire MAGA movement is built on the idea of “Collective Guilt.” That’s why they constantly proclaim that they are the “Real Americans” and the rest of us, somehow, are not.
This doesn’t require evidence. They don’t give anyone else the benefit of the doubt. They don’t wait until they have evidence to prove each individual case, and they don’t accept any evidence to the contrary. We all “Hate America.” We’re all “migrant criminals.” We’re all “rapists.” We’re “Gang Bangers.” We’re “Child Abusers.” We’re “Socialist, Marxist, Communists. Anarchists.” We're “Antifa.” We’re “eating the cats, eating the dogs.”
It’s just decided. It’s just accepted. It’s a done deal.
And, somehow, those people expect everyone else to be just fine with this. They expect to still be buddy-buddy with all their pals. They still think they’re invited for Thanksgiving. They expect their friends and other members of their family won’t hold the fact that they support the active persecution, assault, arrest, detention and deportation of innocent — untried — people by the millions. They don’t care that it violates reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or due process. Those are just “loopholes” and “excuses” to let criminals go free.
Why are you so upset? Why are you taking all this so personally? Why are you blocking me?
Yeah, any of this sound familiar?
When we say that “America is Great” what we mean is that it’s not supposed to be the country that engages in mass bigotry. We are supposed to be the country that protects individual liberty, that protects the freedom of individuals to be whoever and whatever they wish to be, that limits the power of the government in order to preserve that sacred individual liberty and freedom.
But MAGAs think America was “Great” when only one culture, social, gender, and religious perspective exists. They literally don’t even believe in what America was promised to be, and they refuse to admit or face what it actually is.
They just want America to pander to them, only.
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