Are MAGA Fans Too Different To Assimilate Into American Culture?
OPINION
America, we cannot cannot deny it any longer: Donald Trump’s biggest MAGA fans just plain refuse to assimilate into America’s culture of tolerance and diversity.
Many Americans are talking about how the MAGA radicals do not love America, or our values. Instead, they keep blind faith in their extremist religion of ethno-nationalism, and their alleged messiah, Donald Trump.
Americans have had enough.
“I don’t want to say ‘these people,’ but I can’t help but notice that Trump supporters do not actually really like America at all,” explained Mark Trail, 49. “They’re increasingly yelling at minorities in grocery stores and on the street. Their number of hate crimes are on the rise. They’re stockpiling arms to prepare for another potential civil war, and they just plain don’t like the majority of the country that have voted for Democrats in the popular vote seven times in the last eight elections. These people just don’t want the same kinds of things that real Americans want. They want things like spying on women’s menstrual cycles, and deporting Muslims and Hispanic people, and Christian fundamentalism, and a totalitarian executive branch of the government unencumbered by checks or balances on presidential power. Maybe MAGA people are just unfamiliar with how our government works, but, if they’re going to continue living here, they need to learn about America and our Constitution. I hate how it sounds as if I don’t think Trump supporters are welcome here in America, but I wish they would adapt more to our culture, and tone down the extremism in their beliefs. And cool it with all this talk of culture wars, and civil war. If MAGA people would look in a history book they’d see that America has a Constitutional freedom from Evangelical theocracy, and settles its problems at the ballot box. I’m worried that, if the MAGA people keep having kids and raising them with such radical ideologies, it’ll only be a generation or two before we don’t even recognize America anymore as a land of freedom to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Other citizens expressed discomfort with MAGA fans’ clothing customs.
“Those bright red MAGA hats just make me worry every time I see one,” said Sarah Heller, 55. “I don’t understand why they would cover themselves that way with such oppressive, abrasive, and cultish symbolism. And what’s the deal with all this QAnon stuff? It seems so fundamentalist the way they follow their prophet blindly. I wish they’d stop trying to make us all live according to their Q-ria Law. That’s just not how we do things here in America. Do they have to throw their foreignness in our faces? It’s like, are they going to commit a hate crime or insurrection right in front of me? And from the way they view the world, I can tell they don’t care much for our civic principles and tradition. I don’t think they understand or appreciate our public government by the people for the people. I worry they’re not wholly loyal to our country. And the way they take photos of themselves in the beds of their trucks with those Confederate, Nazi, and purple Trump flags on them holding up their religious books and guns is very upsetting. It’s so fundamentalist. I’m worried MAGA voters might be trying to subvert America from within. I mean, you can’t help but notice that they’re very pushy about their beliefs, and they refuse to abide by our election laws, and of course they’re raising their kids to hate our president and country and democracy. This is an issue that will last for generations. I know America is a great melting pot, but I’m afraid they might just be too different to blend in!” 🥃
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"This" will absolutely last for years, maybe generations. When my husband told me that tRump was elected, the first thing I said to him, (after realizing he was serious), was that he would do such damage that it would take decades to get back to "normal." Here we are.
You're right, they don't want to assimilate; they want US to believe what THEY believe. That's never going to happen, so 🤷 what to do?
It won't get appreciably better until the Orange Malignancy is gone, out of sight at least, or permanently at best. Unless we can get on the same page as a people and pass some laws with teeth, against elected officials abusing their offices (Abbott and Paxton in Texas recently, voter officials, etc), and gun ownership (maybe by clarifying the Second Amendment as to the "well-regulated militia" portion of it). I really hope that idea gains some traction, because even though it will take time to amend the Amendment, it's the surest way to give some backbone to federal laws regarding private gun ownership. (I personally have a couple of guns, have hunted a lot, shot since I was a kid, etc. I'm not interested in surrendering my two guns, but for the greater good, I will.)
since they are incompatible with living on earth, then perhaps ‘elon’ can rocket them into outter space, so’z they can breed, colonize and ruin other planets…
tho the aliens may have some serious objections…