cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20930689
Trump amplifies and justifies the way they have always felt. If it wasn't MAGA it would be something else.
They need mass therapy.
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
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Sorry, this is America. You get more mass shootings.
Or just more mass. Fat or church.
Maga is their form of mass therapy, you could never, ever convince them they were wrong about anything ever.
This is the whole reason we have education, to teach people they could be wrong about something complicated, that it's not the end of the world, and that they could learn and grow from the experience.
Can't teach people who think being wrong about anything means they aren't the perfect, chosen of their God.
They need mass therapy.
But when I call for re-education camps, I'm called a tankie 😤
We live in horrid system and it produces horrid people. Do not seek to redeem those who don't seek redemption themselves. You will end up doing more work than them on their own life. Practice a little radical acceptance and realize they are exactly the kind of scumbags they portray themselves as.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
My job is doing outside sales in Ohio and my customer base is very much blue collar manufacturing. There is an obvious overlap in manufacturing and Trump supporters. A lot of places I visit have Trump memorabilia posted around - signs, stickers, flags, whatever.
The other day I was in a spot southeast of Columbus, near the Ohio River. I pull in to this smaller machine shop and see Trump signs in the windows and Trump stickers on the only car outside.
Go in and start chatting with the owner. Within 5 minutes he had already hit me with 3 hard Rs, going on a rant about the "criminals in office" and "if everything goes the way it's supposed to November 5th" and "if it doesn't there's gonna be some problems on November 6th". Had a Biden-Harris Target List hanging (idk if it was a list of people he wanted to kill or if it was one of those "people judge me for my shitty actions and I feel attacked" things).
He was carrying a Glock (not uncommon in a lot of these places that people open carry) and I'm not unfamiliar with firearms (I grew up in Kentucky and was in the Marine Corps), so in order to turn the conversation back to business and away from the racist pro-Trump conversation, I mentioned that the company I work for makes gun barrels for a couple high-profile gun manufacturers. Conversation went that way for a minute (he says it's "bullshit that they try to take guns away from people like you and me (I'm a white dude so I guess we are the only ones supposed to have guns) when everybody knows the hard Rs and illegals are the ones committing all the crime"), then he says, "yeah, if you were a hard R, you'd be seeing this pistol up close"
Idk what my point is other than this guy is the type of dude that's gonna vote for Trump and if that's the people Trump supporters want to side with idk y'all need to look at yourself in a mirror or something.
All the same type of people, unhappy with their life choices, and desperate to inflict violence on an "other."
We addressed many of these same issues in the 1860s, but perhaps the lesson needs a refresher? Someone dig up Sherman and tell him to get back to work.