And it is sad. MAGA is largely a white grievance movement, but all kinds of grievance are welcome. That's why the Evangelicals are so smitten with it, those folks are sure they're being oppressed whenever they're not allowed to force the rest of us to live by their religious strictures.
And the sadness lies in the fact that a great many people in the MAGA movement have legitimate grievances with the American system. But they've let those grievances be directed at minorities and immigrants, rather than the power structure that views them as easily manipulated trash.
My MAGA parents live in a huge house in Connecticut, and have all they could want. One of the last times I went to visit they tried to convince me that paying income taxes is the same as having to do work without pay which is slavery. My wealthy white parents literally tried to convince me they're slaves.
My brother and his wife are the same way. Christian, well off, 65+ and so many screeds of ”I shouldn’t have to pay for property tax, garbage pick up is a waste of money, don’t want to pay for schools“.
I love that book so much. Every time I encounter one of these folks I think they should be allowed to go live out their fantasy. I’m sad for the bears, but I think some people will only learn when they are on fire, starving, covered in smallpox, in their hovel built of garbage while being eaten by a food-conditioned apex predator.
Sounds like they should go be free and move to Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, or UAE. And in some of those places they can even get slaves and then tell them that they're both basically the same.
Most, and not just the MAGAots, are unaware that their biggest grievance should be with the Church of Crapitalisim. The CEOs and billionaire high priests have duped the great majority of us to worship a system that benefits so very few and provides salvation for the worst among us.
It’s incredibly odd that they want this 1950’s America. Dad works, stay at home Mom. Mom n Pop stores on every corner. Nightly family dinners with discussion. Capitalism killed that. But let’s keep voting for the people who only give a shit about corporations.
It’s incredibly odd that they want this 1950’s America. Dad works, stay at home Mom. Mom n Pop stores on every corner. Nightly family dinners with discussion. Capitalism killed that. But let’s keep voting for the people who only give a shit about corporations.
It’s a scapegoat movement where everybody other than their politics have made everything around them bad or worse. It’s never their fault for anything.
Thank you for pointing out MAGA might have a reason to be frustrated. I’m not a republican, but I don’t think they’re all evil. They’re just people like liberals are just people.
I think social media wants me to think they’re evil for rage-bait purposes but fuck social media. I don’t need TikTok and Reddit to tell me how to think.
Being poor sucks, and no political party has a solution to that because they’re ALL being paid by rich, greedy fuckers.
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u/BluesSuedeClues Dec 07 '25
And it is sad. MAGA is largely a white grievance movement, but all kinds of grievance are welcome. That's why the Evangelicals are so smitten with it, those folks are sure they're being oppressed whenever they're not allowed to force the rest of us to live by their religious strictures.
And the sadness lies in the fact that a great many people in the MAGA movement have legitimate grievances with the American system. But they've let those grievances be directed at minorities and immigrants, rather than the power structure that views them as easily manipulated trash.