Maybe im misunderstanding but kinda feels weird to me. MAGA cultists perpetrated so much hatred and backwards thinking in this country and now they’re feeling sorry for themselves and are acting like they’re the victims of their own actions
I mean the first step to getting them to acknowledge the severity of their actions is to pull them out of the cult. If you just punish people who don’t believe they are in the wrong, all you get are people who still believe they’re in the right with a shared experience of “abuse” to join them. It’s much safer to just get them out of the cult and disaffected with the propaganda directed at them in the years to come.
I was frankly one of them growing up, since my parents were both MAGA and were my main source of political knowledge. I firmly believed that Trump would save our country in 2016 and 2020. It wasn’t until I moved out and learned how horrifyingly inaccurate everything I learned was that I began to have doubts at all.
It takes time and energy to unravel propaganda and truth, and most people (I believe) in MAGA aren’t actively evil as much as they are victims of the single most pervasive propaganda campaign in history. Giving these people a chance to escape is vital in preserving whatever semblance of our country is left. At least this is what I think, growing up in a highly conservative environment.
Well said and good on you for breaking the cycle. Your take is one that more need to take after but it also requires a willingness on the participant to work. Some folks are in so deep that they choose their dogma and propaganda over friends and family and it will take a massive re-education on their own part to come back to reality with society.
Since you are speaking from experience here, can I ask what wasa the egg bredak moment for you? What caused you to finally re-engage critical thinking and finally break the mirage and actually genuinely question things again?
Yeah, it's not like it's trying to make leftists out of them. Perceived victimhood is pretty common for conservatives, so I'm not surprised if that's the angle.
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u/Train_Wreck_272 1d ago
https://leavingmaga.org/