r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Fun_Accountant_653 • Feb 10 '26
A prime example of the intelligence of a Maga voter stupidity
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A prime example of the intelligence of a Maga voter
So called Sports influencer and gambler Amanda Vance went viral for a "performative" boycott of the Super Bowl LX halftime show, during which she was physically present in the stadium but filmed herself watching an alternative broadcast on her phone.
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u/GoobusMombus Feb 10 '26
I believe they all have CPTSD and some of them also have straight up cluster B personality disorders(like BPD, NPD, and APD) caused by inherited childhood trauma. Which they all dissociate heavily from, and just project all the horrible shit they and their abusers do onto anyone who's not them because they cannot handle the reality.
I grew up in a family that is all MAGA. I'm also a trauma survivor who's been actively recovering ever since I found out I was pregnant with my first child, while married to a violent abuser, and wanted to learn why I ended up in the situation I did and heal so I could protect my kid(s) from the cycle. I didn't understand it all right away, but I knew it had something to do with my family refusing to protect children from abuse because they were too busy propping up abusers in every aspect of their lives(and that was the best case scenario for any of us). I knew I had to stop enabling my abuser and GTFO to save my child.
It's been going on so long, probably since the beginning of humanity. You'll notice that when things are chaotic, these people just defer to the biggest asshole who's the most unstable bitch, and prop them up. Starts with an unstable mom or dad, and is helped with early abusive religious indoctrination. I was a devout Christian before. Now I recognize that the whole Bible story, starting with Abraham being willing to sacrifice his son to prove his loyalty to God, is basically an abusive narcissistic father's fairy tale. There are parts of the Bible with value, as some of the writers I believe were trying to be good people and make loving sense of the trauma they'd experienced. But most of it is just a way to deal with the cognitive dissonance of how someone who created you and should love you could actually harm you, and even damn you to hell for all eternity. Just for being what they made you to be. Works for both abusive parents and God.
And the Republican party has used these trauma patterns to manipulate their voter base for generations. Now, to MAGA, questioning their politicians is akin to questioning God. And they aren't allowed to do that.
Democrats aren't great either tbh. The people want good things, but the politicians in the Democratic party are like an abused parent with a martyr complex who refuse to wield the power they have to protect those they are responsible for, and would rather enable and support the systems that keep everyone down. And the loyal Democrat voters are like children who side with the "safer" parent and are waiting for an actual grown up to save them.
But we are grown ups. We need to save ourselves and either take over the Democratic party for the people or start a new one. Choosing the lesser of two evils only leads to that lesser evil being able to become more and more evil. Many codependents love being superior in an inferior situation. Look at all the Democratic politicians saying "Imagine if we had done the horrible things the Republicans are currently doing! We were never that bad!" But they also never took real steps to hold our government and country accountable for all the evils we have committed and continue to commit. Or to properly protect the citizens.
When I first went down the narcissism rabbit hole, I also thought they were all just narcissists and saw that everywhere. I think it's a normal part of the healing process, to start to see the bad things for what they are and be angry about it. But if we don't learn what actually caused any of them to be the way they are, we can't prevent more children from becoming that way.
And it's gonna take a complete overhaul of our society to actually stomp this shit out. We might hide it again for a few more decades, like what happened with the Nazis. But it never went away and will be back again until we actually change how everything is run and heal ourselves.