Political Memes

Stages of grief. Most are just getting to denial.

My 90 year old grandma has moved onto bargaining. She's trying to write a letter to DJT to "warn him about Musk"

Not bad progress, considering I couldn't get her to budge at all over the past decade.

I remember a moment before the election in 2016. A family member was going off on a Trump worshiping rant. I asked them what they thought of all the awful things that come out of his mouth. They responded with, "Oh, he's just saying that stuff because he likes to get attention."

I quoted a passage from Luke's gospel. "The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks."

What happened next was amazing. They kind of paused and stared at their shoes with this expression that, if I could put words to it, would have said, "Shit. He's got me there. How do I get around this one?" They then looked up, physically shrugged it off; like water off a ducks back. That stopped the rant but I knew that If they had to choose between Jesus and this particular version of the anti-christ, their choice was already made and it wasn't Jesus.

It doesn't help that they have literally been programmed by right and far right propaganda that only influences and reinforces that mentality of "unity".

I’m a member of a lot of hiking communities on FB. Prior to Trump second presidency, they would blame any kind of problems related to insufficient budgeting to “ sending all money to Ukraine”. Now that he’s the president, and is BLATANTLY cutting budgets to national parks and forests, I see his supporters say “ it’s too bad we donated so much money to the national parks of Ukraine” or “ if Biden did this, you wouldn’t be complaining”, or some version of “ this is necessary, nothing really changed”.

It's also defending the cult leader mentality. Breaking with the cult puts you on the outside, and an enemy of the cult. Breaking free of a cult isn't easy when the cult's actions are constantly being reinforced and regurgitated by their leader and his media disinformation networks.

Some people can't be happy unless they're constantly angry about the people they were told to hate.

We call them gammons over here.

Yep, and they'll vote every Republican in again next time regardless.

99/100 of em are lost causes.

Ah yes, the "Pity me, I didn't get mine" crowd.

They aren't engaged now. Anyone who really looks at politics beyond the talking points that are delivered by the right knows how insane the right is.

Lack of citizen engagement makes it easier to blame immigrants and trans women.

Isnt that what most of his voter base already is?

I think this overlooks how most MAGAs are rural.. and when you live rural you already rely on your neighbors. Most of which are also white and the exceptions are ""one of the good ones."" It's why they can demonize entire demographics and still feeling like a good person since they're good neighbors.

They're not going to stop blaming 'the others' for hardships.. They're just going increase complaints about 'the government' and how much they pay in taxes.

I grew up in Amish country/farmland and it's painful to see how stagnant my family has been over the years.

The question is, will I have reached a breaking point where I will no longer be willing to help them?

Doubt (x) seeing as he was elected twice, they won't ever learn it will always be the "other guys" politician's fault

There is a tipping point when MAGA followers are forced into situations where they must rely on their neighbour and mutual aid.

By the time we reach that point, there won't be an aisle. There won't be a government.

Knew 2 guys that just hated Trans ppl more than anything

That's the rough part a lot of Americans need to swallow: MAGA is full of disenfranchised people that would otherwise organize in solidarity for the common good of the working class.

There's just been so many wedges and fences built up from the Cold War that the ruling class has been able to deflect and distract from progressive policy and maintain power.

They also had their god emperor refusing to wear masks, and political leaders openly denying the disease.

They had support for their grievences.

They won't get that over the economy. Instead, they're getting "this is necessary" and "you'll just have to make some sacrifices for the economy".

Russia's biggest export atm.

And life for most Germans turned shitty really fast, with wages dropping to depression levels with a lot more work hours.