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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDear MAGA, the question is no longer whether we will stop you, but whether enough of you will stop yourselves
Do you want a country run by pedophiles? Unaccountable Tax Cheats? ICE agents who shoot and kill unarmed civilians, leaving their children crying at the sight, leaving a dead body handcuffed in the street for five hours?
Do you want your daughters and granddaughters to lose the right to vote?
Do you want World War III to kill off your grandsons?
Do you want Social Security to be handed over to a hedge fund con-man?
He is going to screw up US elections the way he screwed up and created an algae swamp where the reflecting pool used to be. He is going to pretend the Georgia Senators were not elected and most of the Republican politicians are going to go along with all of his bullshit because thats what he is there for, to spew nonsense that you and your kind keep falling for.
Do you not understand human nature anymore? You worry about Iran being a nuclear power but you think its OK to keep bombing their people, and it wont ever come back to haunt us? In the short term, weve got high gas prices, but in the long-term, it will fuel terrorism or direct military attacks against the US.
Do you not know they want to put your own cities under control of corporations or private companies? Have you read about a secret organization called Dialog?
Your country needs you to stop being brainlessly led by the nose by influence operations funded by mega-billionaires and dictatorial regimes. Some of you are waking up. If so, that is not enough. Figure out what exactly opened your eyes, and get to work on your friends and family who have not yet recognized that they are lemmings about to fall off a cliff.
The central goal of your leaders is to dismantle democracy and replace it with feudalism or fascism run by a dictator. We thought you were better than that. We hope you are better than that.
rampartd
(5,935 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(5,170 posts)And more.
There is a third of the country that actively wants a full on fascist dictatorship. We have completely underestimated just how badly a hundred years of ruling class propaganda has warped this country. I know alot of people think these are just buzz words but its the absolute truth. We are conditioned to accept fascism.
I dont see how we break free of this any time soon.
lostnfound
(17,729 posts)I dont see how we get there either. I doubt we can do it on our own.
WhiskeyGrinder
(27,505 posts)the right people will always be hurt.
live love laugh
(16,601 posts)durablend
(9,533 posts)That's what they got out of this.
Scrivener7
(60,493 posts)sop
(20,181 posts)Trump taking their guns would be the only thing that would give MAGA pause.
relogic
(443 posts)in reference to their their propensity for being uneducated stooges to advance his narcissistic agenda to unravel our democracy- a clear insult they clearly miss that confirms his point.
Oh, but that didnt stick either. Perhaps maga will pay attention when he turns red, apologizes to liberals and gives all his money to black people as reparations.
some_of_us_are_sane
(3,975 posts)LuvLoogie
(9,105 posts)that they will parrot the lies and the narratives of a racist criminal regime and call themselves Christian patriots while wearing no pants.
Until they die, they will be MAGA as long as they can tread on the bones and ashes of those they hate.
Do not waste your time asking them to explain themselves. You know.
lostnfound
(17,729 posts)it was quite good, and shocking. Deeyah Khan, the woman of Afghanistani and Pakistani descent who made the documentary while interviewing and getting to know leaders in the white supremacy movements, is certainly a braver angel.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/dec/04/the-muslim-director-who-filmed-neo-nazis-i-thought-im-not-going-to-make-it-out
For the victims of the current US government, current and future, ignoring MAGA is an option. Merely hoping to overpower them at the ballot box may be overly optimistic.
Deeyah Khan DID ask them to explain themselves, displaying genuine curiosity in doing so, and one decided that he wasnt going to be harassing Muslims anymore and two of them mentioning in their answers that they considered her a friend.