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This is the best explanation of MAGA I've ever seen, still true after 8-years. Read it. It's important.
https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about
Articles like these place a lot of emphasis on the poor, rural members of MAGA, but there's not as much focus on the middle and upper class suburban contingents. People with pristine oversized pickups that have never left a paved road or hauled anything besides a new TV. That coalition as a whole needs to be understood to explain the rise of MAGA.
Also, I don't know anyone who talks about poor, rural folks like that article supposes, and I've spent my entire life in blue urban areas. That guy needs some new friends if his do. In my experience, they speak about poor rural and poor urban people the same way: either equally empathetically or equally condescendingly.
We can't call these people out as it would alienated the suburban trash vote both parties need. Dunking on poors in politics is an American sport. Both sides do it because who cares... Losers lose!
Thanks for sharing!
The sad thing about that article though is that the spiked bat they picked out of desperation cares much less about them than the very people they aim their hated at. It's one of the biggest reasons that people like me that think trump is the lowest of the low, truly a garbage human being, detest the entire GOP and every person that supports them - they continue to enable their actual destructive behavior.
It angers me to even see an article try to minimize the negative impact that is being imparted on our current and future generations. I understand that true elites are bad but you can't both sides this shit. One side is trying to make lives better and one side revels in destroying our civil liberties that our founders and troops bled for, ignoring the fact that their guy who is Jesus 2.0 leads us back towards a monarchy/dictatorship.
Fuck that.
The electoral college needs to go and our FPTP voting system needs to go if we ever truly want to make change as a nation. Otherwise we will continue to be stuck in a pissing match with no victor, while the elites get fatter. The GOP needs to die, they have no platform and don't stand for their ideals anymore - they're not the same party that existed back in the 2000s
That was really a great read thanks for sharing that!
It was absolutely hilarious to get to the end not entirely realizing it and reading "You can pre-order Jason "David Wong" Pargin's book Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick ..." Lol
The future definitely deserves to be punched in the dick though.