Can you ever forgive MAGA voters?

[PatrickforB]

98. Maybe I understand forgiveness in a different way. I see at as an inner release of people who have wronged me.

Let me explain.

A MAGAT votes for Trump. This has wronged me and every other sane American. Because the guy is a total fuck-up dirtbag grifter. Not only is there not an honest bone in his body, there are no decent bones, either.

But Trump is merely a symptom of an end-stage capitalist system that holds profits above human life and the earth itself. A system that encourages and rewards cruelty and sociopathic behavior.

Now, the people at the top of the heap, these modern-day billionaire robber barons are benefitting from a century-long class war that has been waged so successfully that our government has become a government of, by and for corporations and billionaires, and we are getting screwed every which way but loose.

Am I enraged? Not any more. Because I cannot allow these people to have free rent in my head another minute in terms of hating them. Because why? We live in a system of manufactured consent, which is what Trump, Fox, Truth Social, X and all the right-wing talk shows and podcasts do. These people get paid really well by the robber barons and their think-tanks to drive wedges and keep hate and outrage fresh.

We live in an evil system, people. And if Democrats think we can simply go back to the way it has been, with donors ensuring most members of Congress keep this system just the way it is, regardless of what they say, they should think again. If we are ever, ever to recover from this Trump-fascist nightmare, then there needs to be some serious accountability. Trials, indictments, war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, child rape and murder, human trafficking.

That is a given.

Now let's talk about forgiveness. The way I see it, forgiveness is a release that helps me. I simply release the people who have wronged me. I just drop it. No attachment, no fear. Just nothing. No feeling at all. No thought about the past wrongs any more.

Because who does it hurt if you are nursing a big grudge? Hating someone? Not them, for sure. They are going to continue to be dirtbag con artists whether we hate them or not, and in fact relish our hatred, and some even claim they like to drink 'librul tears.' Why waste even a nanosecond continuing useless grudges?

Plus, when Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, it took truth out of news and put yellow journalism back in. Soon, though, with the internet, we had algorithms that were taking people down rabbit holes and keeping them down those holes with conspiracy and 24/7 fearmongering. The algorithms have done something else, too - they are very sophisticated techniques that play systematically on our sense of empathy.

The other party perpetrated this latest outrage! We hate this! We want to FIGHT FOR YOU!!!! Pleeeeeeze give us money! That is the formula and it has given the publicly traded corporate media billions in profits over time.

Is any one person responsible? No. It is the Epstein Class of modern billionaire robber barons and their Wall Street cronies. Do I hate them? Why? They are doing their job. They became powerful because our shareholder primacy system of capitalism allows the worst, most depraved, most immoral sociopaths to climb to the top. It actually rewards them for cruelty, greed and unbridaled lust for power.

THIS IS AN EVIL SYSTEM.

So I don't. They don't get free rent in my head any more. I have put aside the constant outrage because I am beyond burned out with it. So I forgave them.

NOW, let's talk about forgetting.

NEVER. I will never forget what these Epstein Class people have done to this once-great republic.

NEVER. I will act vigorously in my state and metro area to build real community. I will act vigorously to support PROGRESSIVE candidates who understand that things cannot go on as they are, and that we literally need to clean house by tearing the whole thing down and rebuilding it from scratch. We must eliminate corruption, pull Wall Street's teeth, tax the billionaires out of existance, hold those who have committed crimes strictly accountable.

Many of you are quite well-educated, and understand that I am saying we have to have a real political revolution here - not just business as usual. We need massive reform.

The bottom line is that WE THE PEOPLE get to choose what we build out of the ashes of MAGA, and the current system we had before Trump is itself evil and corrupt. I mean, when is the last time federal legislation came out that actually helps working and middle class Americans at their kitchen table? We NEED healthcare. We NEED subsidized childcare. People who work providing childcare and in-home healthcare NEED to earn enough to live. Our children and grandchildren need relief from predatory student debt. We need to do something about affordable housing. We need sane energy and immigration policies, and we need to GET RID OF THE FUCKING FOR-PROFIT MEDIA and take the PROFIT motive OUT of the news.

Big work ahead. Will we be smart enough not to be propagandized to hate each other so these billionaire parasites can keep ripping us off with impunity? Will we be smart enough and have the moral strength to KEEP OUR REPUBLIC?

Maybe. It is completely our choice.

Hate is a waste of life force. Organization, unionization, demonstration, and civic engagement are NOT wastes of life force. But we simply cannot apply sufficient force if impelled forward by hatred. How about love instead? How about a simple moral compass - to treat others as we wish to be treated. Bring honesty and fair-dealing back. Bring compassion back.

So FORGIVE, but DO NOT FORGET. Instead be engaged, be progressive, be organized and stop falling for North Korean level propaganda designed to drive wedges and promote hate. All that does is take our eyes off the prize, which is to perfect the republic.

OK long post. Rant over.