I’m hearing rumblings re: IF Trump does ever go away, what will we do with MAGA? It’s interesting because the whole Trump/MAGA thing feels new, but it will be 13 fucking years by the time 2028 rolls around and 13 fucking years is not chump change – 13 years is 37% of my adult life – 13 years of having to stand there and hope to NOT hurt their feelings, since that’s why we’re in this endless race to destroy the Earth in the first place, 13 years of gently brushing their hair and making sure they know they’re being “heard”, even though it turns out what they decided they wanted was to destroy themselves in the name of crushing libtards.
These are the same people who think it makes them look smart to bray “the government should be run like a business!” and yet we already know that if they’re presented with endless rows of factual data that clearly shows “Everything You’ve Chosen Has Ended Up Being the Worst Possible Decision” they will only double down on more terrible decisions no matter what, which from what I can tell is the exact opposite of how a business runs.
The two historical parallels in treating losers of conflicts are startlingly dissimilar in their executions: after the Civil War we decided to make the Confederacy feel as little pain as possible – if any – and stood by silently to let them run amok with their Lost Cause bullshit and it’s a fair point to say that 161 years after the Civil War we’re still paying the price for not dropping the hammer, as state-sponsored racial discrimination is on the rise and getting worse by the moment.
On the other hand, pretty much the second Hitler died, Naziism in Germany disappeared. It’s never spoken about in reverent tones like we do the Confederacy, there’s no version there of an entire industry based on promulgating Hitler’s fantasies the way there is in the American South & the Confederacy. Hitler failed and so Germans moved on with their lives while renouncing Naziism, but The American South has not done the same with the Confederacy and neither will MAGA, and the reason will be because we decided not to, that “the American people don’t have the stomach” for atonement.
But they do have the stomach for more self-destruction? Again, 13 years isn’t nothing – a coupla 13-year runs strung tother is all you’ll ever get in this life & that’s only if you’re lucky, so how many of them do you wanna spend spiraling into the same hole of despair over & over again waiting for some magical reward from Trump to appear?
MAGA needs to disappear like the Nazis but that’s not as easy to do when it's 100% based on feelings and daddy issues, and I’m *GUESSING* that a lot of time amongst liberal circles will be spent trying to figure how to incorporate MAGA into a different way of doing things without them automatically screeching about elite condescension etc etc & running right back to Daddy, who will tell them that THEY’RE the special ones and that their great reward is coming in just two short weeks; meanwhile, their absolute obsession with being victims will not release them back into the wild without a pathetic fight.
Which means that even if we ever do get done with Trump and settle back into a “normal” presidency, it will barely be a matter of months before we start hearing again about all the people in Rust Belt diners who are angry at being “left behind”, “forgotten” etc etc etc by elitist liberals (also, remember how quickly people went from being relieved to get back to a normal, boring president before starting to grumble about being bored?), even though it was their own Orange Daddy who spent 8 years happily swimming in the very swamp they pretend to detest, stuffing cash into his already-stuffed wallet as they repeatedly vote their own bank accounts into despair; no endless stream of impervious data will make them admit that they were wrong and convince them to be a part of the solution rather than the problem.
There needs to be a national humiliation, a “we fucking told you so, now shut the fuck up and let the adults run things again” moment, but we know that won’t happen because we’ll let ourselves believe that it’s more important to just move on without consequences, meaning we’re pretty much guaranteed to still be talking about these motherfuckers in the year 2187, only we won’t be in a country called the United States of America.
No comments:
Post a Comment