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I’m tired of being angry at MAGA

7 min read2 days ago

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I’m tired of being angry at MAGA. I just want them to stop hating themselves. We’ve all lamented the fact that we’ve been tortured by the MAGA movement for the last 10 years. Their ideology consists entirely of self-loathing. If we don’t escape their gravitational pull, they’ll just drag us all down with them.

Throughout this last decade, we’ve turned to them with frustration and anger of our own. We’ve said your ideas are simply not going to work. History has shown that over and over again.

But MAGA is too proud to listen.

Hatred, ignorance, intolerance, a complete lack of a work ethic, and the absurd justification for any ideas that are rooted in white supremacy is going to do nothing but fail. We’ve seen the memes. We’ve read the books. We know the history.

When it comes to white supremacy, failure is a guarantee. The only thing they do harder than fail is run away from the blame.

We all know how this turns out. Even so, many of our relatives and our former friends and our neighbors insisted that they’d be smug and that somehow this would be different, and that they voted for this movement anyway. They fused it to such an extent with their identity that they…

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