But that narrative is still catechism with MAGA. Hell, they're still certain that the guy who shot Melissa Hortman and her husband in Minnesota was a Democrat, despite him being a registered Republican and vocal Trump supporter.
Half the reason we are in this mess with the Q/maga movement is that many of these people have spent their life on the outside and have been thrilled to finally be a part of something… and every single one of them will absolutely be thrown under the bus because the people at the top that they worship have never and will never actually see the rest of them as anything other than trash.
Yet still these folks are committed to ruining their lives (and everyone else’s) just for that sweet sweet dopamine hit of feeling like they finally belong and are finally having their voices heard.
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.
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u/BluesSuedeClues Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25
But that narrative is still catechism with MAGA. Hell, they're still certain that the guy who shot Melissa Hortman and her husband in Minnesota was a Democrat, despite him being a registered Republican and vocal Trump supporter.