The Psychology Behind MAGA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The article describes a people who obey the law, cherish and uphold family traditions and values, and who don’t want to put up with bs from lawless, “black sheep of the family” types who cause chaos and trouble.

Much of MAGA stems from this:

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:1)

When you understand this you will understand MAGA: we love God AND our country. The Democratic party is home base for atheists, queers (black sheep), and communists. MAGA is diametrically opposed to these types of people, hence the divide in our nation: sheep vs goats, God-fearing vs godless: righteous vs unrighteous.

This is not to say MAGA is perfect, for we are human, only that The Bible is our absolute and final authority concerning human origins, proper sexual behavior, and moral conduct.

I will pre-empt those who will say, “Trump did this….said that…”.

Individual candidates do not define a political party’s platform, so sayeth I.

There are certainly candidates who act like Democrats (I always thought Trump a Democrat for the Miss America sleazefest he oversaw), and there are greedy and immoral politicians but on the whole, the R platform is a force for good and best for America.

So, to be clear, you are anti-healthcare and you believe God will take care of your health? So you don’t want healthcare for you or your children? Because that is exactly what you voted for. You voted for more children to die from disease and malnutrition.
Fine- then don’t enter any more hospitals or medical clinics.
If you can be consistent with your views, I can understand and respect. When you waffle, it’s manipulation and not respectable.

Nobody is anti-healthcare but there is a considerable segment of the population who do not want their tax dollars murdering babies in the womb or paying for mentally confused people to get surgery and hormones to better deceive people that they are of the opposite sex.

Healthcare did not go away, nor is it going away because of Trump. Stop being a Democrat shill.

You need to go back to Biology class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The article describes a people who obey the law, cherish and uphold family traditions and values, and who don’t want to put up with bs from lawless, “black sheep of the family” types who cause chaos and trouble.

Much of MAGA stems from this:

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:1)

When you understand this you will understand MAGA: we love God AND our country. The Democratic party is home base for atheists, queers (black sheep), and communists. MAGA is diametrically opposed to these types of people, hence the divide in our nation: sheep vs goats, God-fearing vs godless: righteous vs unrighteous.

This is not to say MAGA is perfect, for we are human, only that The Bible is our absolute and final authority concerning human origins, proper sexual behavior, and moral conduct.

I will pre-empt those who will say, “Trump did this….said that…”.

Individual candidates do not define a political party’s platform, so sayeth I.

There are certainly candidates who act like Democrats (I always thought Trump a Democrat for the Miss America sleazefest he oversaw), and there are greedy and immoral politicians but on the whole, the R platform is a force for good and best for America.

So, to be clear, you are anti-healthcare and you believe God will take care of your health? So you don’t want healthcare for you or your children? Because that is exactly what you voted for. You voted for more children to die from disease and malnutrition.
Fine- then don’t enter any more hospitals or medical clinics.
If you can be consistent with your views, I can understand and respect. When you waffle, it’s manipulation and not respectable.

Nobody is anti-healthcare but there is a considerable segment of the population who do not want their tax dollars murdering babies in the womb or paying for mentally confused people to get surgery and hormones to better deceive people that they are of the opposite sex.

Healthcare did not go away, nor is it going away because of Trump. Stop being a Democrat shill.

But you're okay with tax dollars being used in ways that other don't agree with, right? So you admit that you're a huge hypocrite who should be entirely ignored?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The article describes a people who obey the law, cherish and uphold family traditions and values, and who don’t want to put up with bs from lawless, “black sheep of the family” types who cause chaos and trouble.

Much of MAGA stems from this:

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:1)

When you understand this you will understand MAGA: we love God AND our country. The Democratic party is home base for atheists, queers (black sheep), and communists. MAGA is diametrically opposed to these types of people, hence the divide in our nation: sheep vs goats, God-fearing vs godless: righteous vs unrighteous.

This is not to say MAGA is perfect, for we are human, only that The Bible is our absolute and final authority concerning human origins, proper sexual behavior, and moral conduct.

I will pre-empt those who will say, “Trump did this….said that…”.

Individual candidates do not define a political party’s platform, so sayeth I.

There are certainly candidates who act like Democrats (I always thought Trump a Democrat for the Miss America sleazefest he oversaw), and there are greedy and immoral politicians but on the whole, the R platform is a force for good and best for America.

So, to be clear, you are anti-healthcare and you believe God will take care of your health? So you don’t want healthcare for you or your children? Because that is exactly what you voted for. You voted for more children to die from disease and malnutrition.
Fine- then don’t enter any more hospitals or medical clinics.
If you can be consistent with your views, I can understand and respect. When you waffle, it’s manipulation and not respectable.

Nobody is anti-healthcare but there is a considerable segment of the population who do not want their tax dollars murdering babies in the womb or paying for mentally confused people to get surgery and hormones to better deceive people that they are of the opposite sex.

Healthcare did not go away, nor is it going away because of Trump. Stop being a Democrat shill.

You need to go back to Biology class.

How can you expect people who believe they are feasting on Zombie Jesus every Sunday to understand biology?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The article describes a people who obey the law, cherish and uphold family traditions and values, and who don’t want to put up with bs from lawless, “black sheep of the family” types who cause chaos and trouble.

Much of MAGA stems from this:

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:1)

When you understand this you will understand MAGA: we love God AND our country. The Democratic party is home base for atheists, queers (black sheep), and communists. MAGA is diametrically opposed to these types of people, hence the divide in our nation: sheep vs goats, God-fearing vs godless: righteous vs unrighteous.

This is not to say MAGA is perfect, for we are human, only that The Bible is our absolute and final authority concerning human origins, proper sexual behavior, and moral conduct.

I will pre-empt those who will say, “Trump did this….said that…”.

Individual candidates do not define a political party’s platform, so sayeth I.

There are certainly candidates who act like Democrats (I always thought Trump a Democrat for the Miss America sleazefest he oversaw), and there are greedy and immoral politicians but on the whole, the R platform is a force for good and best for America.

I think you might want ti read your Bible a little more carefully. Because loving society's outcasts was Jesus' whole thing. You can't love God, and country, and your family when you reject the very people God instructed you to love, whose laws our country made equal and whose freedoms they meant to protect, people who ARE in fact your family or your neighbors or your community members.

No, it is you who needs to read the Bible and gain understanding, for you are ignorant of the precepts of God.

There is a huge difference between loving sinners (drunks, drug addicts, perverts, homosexuals, liars, and adulterers, etc.), and approving, affirming, condoning, and encouraging them to have pride in their sins, having no need for repentance but just feel like you are a good person then you are good.

Jesus said ”Go, and sin more.”

Christians are to, per Ephesians 5:11

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

The Republican party is a reproof against the works of darkness and that which brings ruin to our nation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The article describes a people who obey the law, cherish and uphold family traditions and values, and who don’t want to put up with bs from lawless, “black sheep of the family” types who cause chaos and trouble.

Much of MAGA stems from this:

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:1)

When you understand this you will understand MAGA: we love God AND our country. The Democratic party is home base for atheists, queers (black sheep), and communists. MAGA is diametrically opposed to these types of people, hence the divide in our nation: sheep vs goats, God-fearing vs godless: righteous vs unrighteous.

This is not to say MAGA is perfect, for we are human, only that The Bible is our absolute and final authority concerning human origins, proper sexual behavior, and moral conduct.

I will pre-empt those who will say, “Trump did this….said that…”.

Individual candidates do not define a political party’s platform, so sayeth I.

There are certainly candidates who act like Democrats (I always thought Trump a Democrat for the Miss America sleazefest he oversaw), and there are greedy and immoral politicians but on the whole, the R platform is a force for good and best for America.

So freedom as long as people stay in line with exactly how you think they should be? Sounds like a very rigid way to be, and not very, truly free. Makes me feel claustrophobic, honestly.

[Anonymous]

To the MAGA poster: who do you think follows and proclaims Christian principles more closely, James Talarico or John Cornyn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The article describes a people who obey the law, cherish and uphold family traditions and values, and who don’t want to put up with bs from lawless, “black sheep of the family” types who cause chaos and trouble.

Much of MAGA stems from this:

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:1)

When you understand this you will understand MAGA: we love God AND our country. The Democratic party is home base for atheists, queers (black sheep), and communists. MAGA is diametrically opposed to these types of people, hence the divide in our nation: sheep vs goats, God-fearing vs godless: righteous vs unrighteous.

This is not to say MAGA is perfect, for we are human, only that The Bible is our absolute and final authority concerning human origins, proper sexual behavior, and moral conduct.

I will pre-empt those who will say, “Trump did this….said that…”.

Individual candidates do not define a political party’s platform, so sayeth I.

There are certainly candidates who act like Democrats (I always thought Trump a Democrat for the Miss America sleazefest he oversaw), and there are greedy and immoral politicians but on the whole, the R platform is a force for good and best for America.

I think you might want ti read your Bible a little more carefully. Because loving society's outcasts was Jesus' whole thing. You can't love God, and country, and your family when you reject the very people God instructed you to love, whose laws our country made equal and whose freedoms they meant to protect, people who ARE in fact your family or your neighbors or your community members.

No, it is you who needs to read the Bible and gain understanding, for you are ignorant of the precepts of God.

There is a huge difference between loving sinners (drunks, drug addicts, perverts, homosexuals, liars, and adulterers, etc.), and approving, affirming, condoning, and encouraging them to have pride in their sins, having no need for repentance but just feel like you are a good person then you are good.

Jesus said ”Go, and sin more.”

Christians are to, per Ephesians 5:11

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

The Republican party is a reproof against the works of darkness and that which brings ruin to our nation.

Jesus saw what you did to his people in the camps. Jesus saw how you loved seeing others suffer. Jesus saw you shrug at death. He saw you worshipping an orange calf.

Focus on your own sins. Lord knows you have so many to atone for. A lifetime’s worth. Let other people have their own relationship with God.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m so glad Trump waited until he had one foot in the grave to enter politics. If he started in his 40s, he would 100% be America’s hitler.

I can't believe you people

Or Vance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It all stems from abortion. I truly believe that.

A conversation with a fellow liberal made me think. He said that if the left had someone like Trump, they would get the same kind of following. Of course I was appalled and disagreed. But then he said, “Think about it. What if someone came along who would and could massively reduce gun violence, secure our reproductive rights, and even say the quiet parts out loud to the entire world.” I pointed out that reducing gun violence would save so many lives, and so would reproductive rights. And he pointed out that this is how they feel about abortions. They believe every abortion is murdering a baby. If you believed that, is there anything that would be more important to you? It made me think. I have to admit that I would probably be willing to put up with and justify a lot from someone who could accomplish those things.

I am NOT trying to make excuses or justify maga. I am still disgusted, disappointed, and confused by their loyalty to Trump. But it did give me a slightly different perspective.

You almost got it. Anti-abortion was a niche Catholic idea until republicans created it as a wedge issue and ran a campaign to brainwash a generation of scientifically illiterate people to believe abortion is murder, so they would turn off their brains completely regarding every other issue. It was a scam from the start.

Maybe so but I talked to the democratic committee running Hillary's campaign and said she didnt even agree to the Hyde Amendment. Why push the envelope on this issue which didnt need to be changed? Why weren't they ok with the status quo on abortion. It was obvious to me that it was a wedge issue and not important. The answer was they wanted to push the limits and see what they could do because they thought they would win and didnt rrally have to br strategic. It was a massively poor decision after also creating financial and international problems for the country as well as all the inmigrants. There are people in that party just like the Republicans who will not stop until everyone believes in their world order. Its not enough just to allow 90 percent of whatever a need is be legal and have a few needs in the country go unmet. People push the envelope and end up falling off a cliff. I hope those members who helped Hillary have done some self reflection on this issue but doubtful. Its always someone else. Maybe the Republicans will make the same blunder. I dont know. I think they are more strategic and realize they can be outnumbered by a younger generation turning quickly. Hopefully another wedge issue will come along the Democrats can leech onto. These groups will never learn. Most people want the country in the middle and so really both of these groups are outnumbered by the middle making pushing the envelope the only way to power.

It's a simple formula: talk up the threat posed by social outsiders ("groomers"), take harsh stances on Law and Order issues, and be Pro Life.

This isn't specifically a Republican thing. Democrats did this for an entire century after the Reconstruction. MAGAs are basically pre-Civil Rights Acts Democrats.

I didnt live around this time but to me segregation was wrong and was very visibly wrong in society leading Im sure to other poor behaviors like a cancer like we see now in politics trickle down to everyday life. Hidden Figures and the Butler as an example showed what the US was like before the Civil rights act. You think the Hyde Amendment or pro life and the civil rights act were comparable? One was affecting real lives. The other was affecting fetuses. The prolife movement said protecting fetuses more would make us value the sanctity of life more but that was obviously a farce. Only some people now are deemed worthy and its getting smaller each year. While civil rights actually bettered lives.

[Anonymous]

I loathe the way MAGA wraps itself in Christianity---it makes me sad and ashamed as a Christian. They are modern-day Pharisees and we know what Christ thought about THEM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The article describes a people who obey the law, cherish and uphold family traditions and values, and who don’t want to put up with bs from lawless, “black sheep of the family” types who cause chaos and trouble.

Much of MAGA stems from this:

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:1)

When you understand this you will understand MAGA: we love God AND our country. The Democratic party is home base for atheists, queers (black sheep), and communists. MAGA is diametrically opposed to these types of people, hence the divide in our nation: sheep vs goats, God-fearing vs godless: righteous vs unrighteous.

This is not to say MAGA is perfect, for we are human, only that The Bible is our absolute and final authority concerning human origins, proper sexual behavior, and moral conduct.

I will pre-empt those who will say, “Trump did this….said that…”.

Individual candidates do not define a political party’s platform, so sayeth I.

There are certainly candidates who act like Democrats (I always thought Trump a Democrat for the Miss America sleazefest he oversaw), and there are greedy and immoral politicians but on the whole, the R platform is a force for good and best for America.

I think you might want ti read your Bible a little more carefully. Because loving society's outcasts was Jesus' whole thing. You can't love God, and country, and your family when you reject the very people God instructed you to love, whose laws our country made equal and whose freedoms they meant to protect, people who ARE in fact your family or your neighbors or your community members.

No, it is you who needs to read the Bible and gain understanding, for you are ignorant of the precepts of God.

There is a huge difference between loving sinners (drunks, drug addicts, perverts, homosexuals, liars, and adulterers, etc.), and approving, affirming, condoning, and encouraging them to have pride in their sins, having no need for repentance but just feel like you are a good person then you are good.

Jesus said ”Go, and sin more.”

Christians are to, per Ephesians 5:11

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

The Republican party is a reproof against the works of darkness and that which brings ruin to our nation.

I don't need to read anything. I recognize your religion for the farce that it is, largely because you followers are such massive hypocrites. You wouldn't know kindness or empathy if it hit you in the face. You use religion to control people, not help them. You judge people when your religion says you are not to judge. You are a stupid and cruel sheep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loathe the way MAGA wraps itself in Christianity---it makes me sad and ashamed as a Christian. They are modern-day Pharisees and we know what Christ thought about THEM.

Again, it is freedom only specific to their very narrow definition of it. They do not truly believe in separation of church and state or freedom of religion or beliefs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The article describes a people who obey the law, cherish and uphold family traditions and values, and who don’t want to put up with bs from lawless, “black sheep of the family” types who cause chaos and trouble.

Much of MAGA stems from this:

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:1)

When you understand this you will understand MAGA: we love God AND our country. The Democratic party is home base for atheists, queers (black sheep), and communists. MAGA is diametrically opposed to these types of people, hence the divide in our nation: sheep vs goats, God-fearing vs godless: righteous vs unrighteous.

This is not to say MAGA is perfect, for we are human, only that The Bible is our absolute and final authority concerning human origins, proper sexual behavior, and moral conduct.

I will pre-empt those who will say, “Trump did this….said that…”.

Individual candidates do not define a political party’s platform, so sayeth I.

There are certainly candidates who act like Democrats (I always thought Trump a Democrat for the Miss America sleazefest he oversaw), and there are greedy and immoral politicians but on the whole, the R platform is a force for good and best for America.

I think you might want ti read your Bible a little more carefully. Because loving society's outcasts was Jesus' whole thing. You can't love God, and country, and your family when you reject the very people God instructed you to love, whose laws our country made equal and whose freedoms they meant to protect, people who ARE in fact your family or your neighbors or your community members.

No, it is you who needs to read the Bible and gain understanding, for you are ignorant of the precepts of God.

There is a huge difference between loving sinners (drunks, drug addicts, perverts, homosexuals, liars, and adulterers, etc.), and approving, affirming, condoning, and encouraging them to have pride in their sins, having no need for repentance but just feel like you are a good person then you are good.

Jesus said ”Go, and sin more.”

Christians are to, per Ephesians 5:11

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

The Republican party is a reproof against the works of darkness and that which brings ruin to our nation.

Your religion is YOURS. You don't get to impose it on the rest of us. I see no sin in being gay. I see no sin in being trans. I see no sin people living a life of joy and fun, so long as they aren't hurting others. If you want to live a life of fear, anger, hatred, and judgement, that's your right. But again, you don't get to impose it on the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The article describes a people who obey the law, cherish and uphold family traditions and values, and who don’t want to put up with bs from lawless, “black sheep of the family” types who cause chaos and trouble.

Much of MAGA stems from this:

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:1)

When you understand this you will understand MAGA: we love God AND our country. The Democratic party is home base for atheists, queers (black sheep), and communists. MAGA is diametrically opposed to these types of people, hence the divide in our nation: sheep vs goats, God-fearing vs godless: righteous vs unrighteous.

This is not to say MAGA is perfect, for we are human, only that The Bible is our absolute and final authority concerning human origins, proper sexual behavior, and moral conduct.

I will pre-empt those who will say, “Trump did this….said that…”.

Individual candidates do not define a political party’s platform, so sayeth I.

There are certainly candidates who act like Democrats (I always thought Trump a Democrat for the Miss America sleazefest he oversaw), and there are greedy and immoral politicians but on the whole, the R platform is a force for good and best for America.

I think you might want ti read your Bible a little more carefully. Because loving society's outcasts was Jesus' whole thing. You can't love God, and country, and your family when you reject the very people God instructed you to love, whose laws our country made equal and whose freedoms they meant to protect, people who ARE in fact your family or your neighbors or your community members.

No, it is you who needs to read the Bible and gain understanding, for you are ignorant of the precepts of God.

There is a huge difference between loving sinners (drunks, drug addicts, perverts, homosexuals, liars, and adulterers, etc.), and approving, affirming, condoning, and encouraging them to have pride in their sins, having no need for repentance but just feel like you are a good person then you are good.

Jesus said ”Go, and sin more.”

Christians are to, per Ephesians 5:11

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

The Republican party is a reproof against the works of darkness and that which brings ruin to our nation.

Your religion is YOURS. You don't get to impose it on the rest of us. I see no sin in being gay. I see no sin in being trans. I see no sin people living a life of joy and fun, so long as they aren't hurting others. If you want to live a life of fear, anger, hatred, and judgement, that's your right. But again, you don't get to impose it on the rest of us.

+1

Christian Nationalism (aka GOP) has nothing to do with Christianity. Christ doesn't care if America is Christian. That isn't remotely Biblical. We aren’t Biblical Israel. Go live your life in peace. Trump is ot God's sword. ( i think I threw up a little in my mouth to think this failure of a human being os being worshiped by you all.)

The cruelty of this administration and those who support them like the PPP who think the griftting GOP care about Christian principles at the heart of Christianity is astonishing. Just performative

I alway think, the bigger the cross they wear around thrir neck the more they are hiding. I'd rather sit with the "sinners."
- a Christian

[Anonymous]

It’s called the Authoritarian Personality.

Sadly, about 30% of the population is like this all the time and non-voters have allowed them to beat the normies at the ballot box. So here we are.

It also seems pretty obvious that a lot of Trumpers were raised by abusive parents and never did anything to change that cycle in their lives.