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Isn't "MAGA" an admission that currently, America is NOT great? (lemmy.world)

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Just something MAGA-people seem to have a hard time with sometimes. Probably not as much when Americans are speaking to themselves, but as a non-American, sometimes it's challenging to get "those people" to admit that there is indeed anything wrong with the US. As in they won't accept a single criticism, and will loudly proclaim "America is the greatest country in the world", while wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, which for me pretty explicitly means America isn't great, if it has to be made to be such again.

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[-] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think MAGA is an unspoken admission that there are a lot of easily swayed people in this country that have been failed by the existing system.

Even if deep down they know it is all BS they can't allow themselves to acknowledge it because that would mean having to face the reality that they don't have much of a future to look forward to for various reasons.

A lot of people can't take that mentally and keep going day to day, so they just go along with the crazy because it seems easier to go with the delusion.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

You got it man.

Admitting that their whole identities were built around bullshit is just too much.

I genuinely believe that for people like that, MDMA (or other serotonergic substance) assisted therapy would help people like that a great deal. These are the "powertools" of psychology currently, and I genuinely think they're necessary for people like that.

Sometimes — albeit rarely — you see ex-maga people or ex-some other right wing lunatic people who have genuinely come to their senses, but they are exceedingly rare.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago

I think MAGA is an unspoken admission that there are a lot of easily swayed people in this country that have been failed by the existing system.

From what I recall there were not an insignificant amount of Bernie to Trump voters. Sick of the current system and looking for a charismatic outsider that wanted to fight for them.

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