This seems to be a growing phenomenon. Maybe it’s an extreme emotional reaction to the election results, but this seems to be happening all over the nation. Many people are breaking their ties with their MAGA-voting friends and family.
Let’s admit that they are a cult. We’ve seen this coming for years, starting with the Tea Party and growing as Trump came along. They argue that they voted for “Policy over Personality” - but we all know that’s a crock of shit.
Anyone who “did their own research” would see that inflation has come down massively, and faster in the US than almost any other nation. Expecting it to come down even faster than it did is really not realistic. It took two terms and eight years for Obama to fully recover from the Great Recession, and Biden managed to do it in less than half the time.
The Economy is doing great, Unemployment is down, the GDP is great, the Stock Market is great, the Deficit came down by the greatest amount in history and still people don’t think all of that is good enough.
How can you do better than the “greatest improvement in history?”
You can’t. You can’t satisfy these people with totally unrealistic expectations.
And if Trump does tariffs it’s going to raise prices. If he does his Mass Deportation that’s going to create the same type of recession we had during covid because it will immediately affect the supply chain. Again. They argue they are "Pro-Life” when denial of OB-BYN care is literally Killing Women, without “saving” a single baby.
The number of abortions per year is UP, while the Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality rates are also up. None of these “policies” are going to work. A lot of people are going to suffer, many of them will die.
That’s what these people voted for - even if they can’t bring themselves to admit it - that is what’s going to happen.
The question is - should we cut them off totally for having done it?
There are several answers to that question.
If you can’t stomach the idea of interacting with someone who has knowingly enabled fascism, sexism and racism - then you may have your answer.
It can be a matter of personal safety. Can you feel safe with someone who voted to put a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter back in the White House? That’s a “personality” you can tolerate? That’s the personality you endorse?
People are making that decision — and it’s making the Trumpers really sad, and mad.
Maybe they deserve it.
Maybe this will be a wakeup call for some of them. Maybe they’ll realize that this is not just “politics” for many of us. It’s life and death.
They told us, repeatedly, to “Fuck Joe Biden” and "Let’s Go Brandon.” They called Kamala Harris a cock-sucking whore who was “mostly Indian” and a “fake black person.” They had pictures of Joe Biden tied up in the back of a truck.
They think that shit is just politics?
Oh, but when you tell them “Fuck You” it’s just too much. It’s just too mean.
Yeah, it’s not.
On the other hand, there are some of these people who just might be salvageable. It just might be possible to reach them and cutting them off also kills the line of communication. You can’t do anything to help someone see the light if you aren’t talking and exchanging ideas across the ideological divide.
The question is — is it worth it?
Is that friendship or relationship valuable enough for you to make the effort even if you might feel it puts you at risk? Can you still trust this person even after they’ve betrayed you and most of the nation for their own personal gain - or to implement their own agenda of hate?
Perhaps cutting these people off will close the lines where it’s possible to pull these people out of the cult. Giving up on them might be giving up on major portions of the country. Maybe they’ll never recover from this cult. Maybe they’re lost forever.
That’s the other side of the risk.
You have to wonder do they even appreciate how you feel? Do they even understand why this is so important to so many of us?
This was not just a game of shirts and skins. It wasn’t a game at all.
I had a friend of nearly 30 years that I recently blocked on Facebook. But it wasn’t because he was MAGA - I was actually trying to engage and talk to him more because of that. I was trying to understand how he got to that place and how he was thinking. But he was totally closed off. I would argue facts and truth with him but he wouldn’t accept any information from mainstream media or the government as “legitimate.” He’d lost all faith and trust in those sources. He wouldn’t even accept info from Right-Wing sources if it went against his narrative. He rejected them all out of hand. He didn’t have a reason, just because he chose not to believe it. He didn’t have any evidence that there was a flaw in what they were saying, simply the fact that they said it, and he didn’t like it, meant it was wrong.
But I didn’t block him because of any of that - I blocked him because he had become a rude fucking dick. Dismissive. Haughty. Arrogant. And a pretty shitty friend. Sometimes it’s a matter of getting the negativity, abuse, gaslighting and bullshit out of your life.
I don’t regret dumping him for a second.
I may have another friend who I suspect is MAGA — he’s been ducking my calls lately — but that isn’t confirmed yet. I haven’t cut him off because I don’t see the need to, yet.
Here’s a prime example of what I mean.
If you’re willing to cut off family and friends who views don’t perfectly align with yours - you’re the problem right now.
You’re the problem right now and I guarantee that that kind of behavior will cause more of a divide in your own life than this election ever will. Okay?
Your true colors are showing.
I opened up Facebook this morning to so many posts that said “If you voted for this person, I don’t care who you are go ahead and unfriend me. I’m gonna let the trash take itself out.” Ok? Okay. Girl.
I do not care who you voted for but I do care how you treat people that voted differently than you. That’s what it really boils down to.
So you’re supposed to still be friends with someone who voted for Tangerine Mousolini? Really?
I have close friends in my life who voted different than me and I’m not unfriending anybody because of the way they voted.
Yeah, because (you don’t think) your life is on the line. You don’t think you’re going to be deported and thrown into a detention camp. You don’t think you’re going to face a military tribunal. You don’t think you’re favorite books are going to be banned. You don’t think you’re way of thinking is going to be essentially outlawed.
All of these options may not happen - but some of them will, and you don’t care.
Hell, you might even like some of it.
But I will be unfriending anybody who is openly bashing their Grandma on the Facebook comments, because that is telling me all I need to know about you as a person.
Oh really? Would you ban and block somebody who bashed you by calling you “Vermin?” Would you block somebody who said you had “bad genes?” Would you bash someone who called you “Garbage?” Who said you were the “Enemy from Within” and threatened to use the military against you?
Or is it that since he wasn’t talking about you - you let it all slide?
But you have a problem with someone saying that they’re not ok with it to their Grandma? Yeah, that tells me everything I need to know about you too.
Maybe the fact that they don’t think this is serious - is exactly the problem. They think this is a joke, they think this is like a baseball or basketball game. People fucking rioted when the Dodgers won the World Series. They rioted and burned property because they WON.
This is not the World Series - it’s much worse than that. It’s much more serious than that. It’s much more dangerous and deadly than that for women, immigrants, minorities and Democrats. But we aren’t burning down the town over it - we’re just telling you people to “Fuck off.”
So, these are the choices. Do we still want someone like that still in our life or not? Is it worth it to try and inject some sense into their heads? Are they worth trying to reach? Are they worth trying to redeem? Can they be deprogrammed and rehabilitated?
I think it depends, and that’s a decision people have to make on their own.
Maybe they need to show some regret and remorse for what they did. Maybe they need to ask for forgiveness first — then maybe some of us can consider it.
So here’s a couple who normally run a Music Reaction Channel who started doing reactions to political content — starting with the propaganda of Tom Homan, Thomas Sowell and Candice Owens ( who was pushing a noxious conspiracy theory that Kamala Harris faked a picture with her Grandmother and that her father was really white - not Black.)
This got them some fairly angry comments, and their daughter is refusing to talk to them.
Now they’re crying and sorry. Kinda.
This family is suffering from being shunned by their daughter, but they don’t seem to have learned the lesson. They have decided that venturing into “politics” was their mistake - not that they chose to buy into and spread hateful conspiracy theories and lies.
Are they worth being forgiven? Hmm, maybe. They aren’t dedicated Trumpers so there could be some hope for them. Maybe.
However, some may respond by just blowing off the end of the friendship/relationship and chalk it all up to you being a sore loser. You just couldn’t handle the defeat.
Yeah, but remember when they lost last time in 2020 and couldn’t handle it? They tried to STEAL the election with false electors and fake lies about election fraud. They attacked the Capitol and tried to OVERTHROW the entire election. They couldn’t tolerate the loss so badly they committed Insurrection and Sedition.
We’re reacting by kicking them the fuck out of our lives. We aren’t going out and committing Insurrection. We’re protecting ourselves, we have the freedom to choose who we associate with and who we interact with and when — you fuckers tried to steal the country.
This is an act of self-defense, not an “overreaction.” Put this shit in perspective.
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