The Rude Pundit: Trump and MAGA Nation Want to Kill You

[Nevilledog]

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/10/trump-and-maga-nation-want-to-kill-you.html

Let us say, and why not, for the sake of argument, just for a thought experiment, that racism, sexism, and xenophobia weren't the driving factors behind Donald Trump's victory in 2016. Let us say, and, indeed, why not, that we can put aside any arguments about Hillary Clinton or Russian fuckery. Surely we have all wondered, "Why the fuck would anyone vote for a bloated, molesty carnival barker?" And maybe, after seeing everything excluded, it would make sense to conclude that they did it to "own the liberals."

But what the fuck does that mean in action? The knee-jerk response is that Trump voters (the "they" here) believe we Trump haters think we're smarter than them and that, generally, we think we're better than them, which, to be fair, we are. (I'm not being glib. Objectively, if you are a Trump voter, you are a worse human than me.)

I wanna go further here. Lemme give you a theory, some dime store sociology: They hate us because we're right and we've been right all along. We're right about getting health insurance to more people being a good thing. We're right about climate change harming us. We're right about racism. Hell, Barack Obama allowing the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy to expire didn't murder the economy; it helped with the recovery, as did big government investment in infrastructure and rescuing states. Every fucking thing they were told was going to be a disaster turned out to be fine. And everything they were told was fine, like the COVID response, has turned out to be a disaster.

How right were we? Go back to the same sex marriage debate. Pre-2015 Obergefell decision, a large number of conservatives were predicting the end of "traditional" marriage and all manner of supposed societal downfalls. What happened in the years after Obergefell? Marriage rates rose and divorce rates fell. And now, over 5 years later, a huge majority of the country supports the rights of two dudes or two chicks to get married. And we haven't legalized polygamy or marriage to animals. (Although, to be sure, there are backwards ass evangelicals and savage conservatives who still hate them some queers, and some of them are on the Supreme Court now.)

So when you're confronted with facts that show that all the shit you've been injecting into your brain for decades is just wrong and the people who you were told were nation-destroying, soy-sucking animal fuckers are right, you've got a few options. You can accept you were wrong and change. But, goddamnit, your entire identity is based on all that shit. So your other options are various levels of denial. You can just say, "Fuck you" and ignore reality and cling to your lies. Or you can jack up that noise and declare, "Not only do I not accept reality, but you eat babies!" Or you can declare that you wanna fuckin' murder those smug fucks for the crime of being right about all the things you thought you were right about.

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[CaptYossarian]

1. Yes, you're right that we've always been right.

Right?

This goes way back too. We were right with FDR's New Deal. We were right on the Civil Rights movement, protesting Viet Nam, the ERA and the right to choose, all the changes in environmental policies, the Bush wars, and the meager strides the LGBTQ have made.

It's too bad that undeserving rich morons like Jared have historically nailed Black people's shoes down, only to b*tch about them not wanting to succeed. Another rich guy named JFK said that a rising tide lifts all boats. What a contrast.

We were even right in voting for Hillary over Satan, but the EC had other thoughts.

Is the intent to murder us the reason Trump destroyed the pandemic response that Obama wisely put in place? Or is he such a piggish racist that he wanted to "white-out" all that Obama did from history without thinking of a half million dead Americans as collateral damage? Knowing that his deranged cult would not wear masks because he didn't wear them only puts them more at risk. His dead supporters don't add up to "owning the libs". Especially since we've usually had the greater numbers.

Too bad there isn't a database that shows the political stance these Covid victims subscribed to. Maybe Trump would blame the dead cult members on Hunter Biden, the opponent inside his head.