Losing Friends and Family over MAGA and Trump

This seems to be a growing phenomenon. Maybe it’s an extreme emotional reaction to the election results, but this seems to be happening all over the nation. Many people are breaking their ties with their MAGA-voting friends and family.

Let’s admit that they are a cult. We’ve seen this coming for years, starting with the Tea Party and growing as Trump came along. They argue that they voted for “Policy over Personality” - but we all know that’s a crock of shit.

Anyone who “did their own research” would see that inflation has come down massively, and faster in the US than almost any other nation. Expecting it to come down even faster than it did is really not realistic. It took two terms and eight years for Obama to fully recover from the Great Recession, and Biden managed to do it in less than half the time.

The Economy is doing great, Unemployment is down, the GDP is great, the Stock Market is great, the Deficit came down by the greatest amount in history and still people don’t think all of that is good enough?

How can you do better than the “greatest improvement in history?”

You can’t. You can’t satisfy these people with totally unrealistic expectations.

And if Trump does tariffs it’s going to raise prices. If he does his Mass Deportation that’s going to create the same type of recession we had during covid because it will immediately affect the supply chain. Again. They argue they are "Pro-Life” when denial of OB-BYN care is literally Killing Women, without “saving” a single baby.

The number of abortions per year is UP, while the Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality rates are also up. None of these “policies” are going to work. A lot of people are going to suffer, many of them will die.

That’s what these people voted for - even if they can’t bring themselves to admit it - that is what’s going to happen.

The question is - should we cut them off totally for having done it?

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There are several answers to that question.

If you can’t stomach the idea of interacting with someone who has knowingly enabled fascism, sexism and racism - then you may have your answer.

It can be a matter of personal safety. Can you feel safe with someone who voted to put a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter back in the White House? That’s a “personality” you can tolerate? That’s the personality you endorse?

People are making that decision — and it’s making the Trumpers really sad, and mad.

Maybe they deserve it.

Maybe this will be a wakeup call for some of them. Maybe they’ll realize that this is not just “politics” for many of us. It’s life and death.

They told us, repeatedly, to “Fuck Joe Biden” and "Let’s Go Brandon.” They called Kamala Harris a cock-sucking whore who was “mostly Indian” and a “fake black person.” They had pictures of Joe Biden tied up in the back of a truck.

They think that shit is just politics?

Oh, but when you tell them “Fuck You” it’s just too much. It’s just too mean.

Yeah, it’s not.

On the other hand, there are some of these people who just might be salvageable. It just might be possible to reach them and cutting them off also kills the line of communication. You can’t do anything to help someone see the light if you aren’t talking and exchanging ideas across the ideological divide.

The question is — is it worth it?

Is that friendship or relationship valuable enough for you to make the effort even if you might feel it puts you at risk? Can you still trust this person even after they’ve betrayed you and most of the nation for their own personal gain - or to implement their own agenda of hate?

Perhaps cutting these people off will close the lines where it’s possible to pull these people out of the cult. Giving up on them might be giving up on major portions of the country. Maybe they’ll never recover from this cult. Maybe they’re lost forever.

That’s the other side of the risk.

You have to wonder do they even appreciate how you feel? Do they even understand why this is so important to so many of us?

This was not just a game of shirts and skins. It wasn’t a game at all.