If anyone says they are maga, I simply respond that they have no moral authority as they gave it away when they embraced the convicted felon.

there is no reality to this. Fake Christians comes to mind, although they think they are doing their gawd's business. Kinda fucked up.

The 7 deadly sins comes to mind, which these fake Christians do every single day.

Nothing drives people to hate as much as envy and feeling inferior. As someone who had to deal with jealous co-workers when I was getting promoted over them I have experienced the hate first hand. The knives were out for me. Instead of them realizing that I worked my ass off, came in early, stayed late, brought work home they chose to believe I was just the bosses”pet” or that I was having an affair with him.

Often those who are the most pious are the worst offenders.

The cruelty is the policy goal

Actually anything that starts with "you people" gives me pause.

… you’re different from me, and you are not my people. It frequently has racial implications. It’s a good phrase to avoid in most contexts.

But context is important. I think it was used here appropriately. The writer was intentionally drawing a stark distinction between us and them.

which I'm sure you are not, so don't take it personally.

Have a great day and thanks for your DU contributions.

To try to understand this, it is worth reading or re-reading 'The True Believer' by Eric Hoffer. Hoffer explores the factors that can cause people, especially those who are fearful and uncertain about their status in a changing world, to abandon reason and decency to and follow some cult that provides easy answers and assurance that the people they fear and hate will be punished.

about group dynamics.

No thanks, not a KKKult member.

The answers are right there.
Able to be understood by anyone.
Pure Weapons-Grade Propaganda.

If you REALLY want understand why they see/don't see these things, you have to watch.

Pretty simple

My MAGA brother treats the GOP like the Packers or the Wisconsin Badgers. My team until death, no matter if they hate the players or the team.

It's all fun and games for them all the time until their bank accounts will start suffering a LOT.

to help with sending food to Gaza. And then he says something like "It's real -- they're not faking starvation." I was dumbfounded. Whoever faked starvation? Infants and toddlers? Who even thinks like that?

He is so ignorant, phony and criminal that he's sub-human. So are his supporters. Believe they're hopeless.

They’ve made it their identity

just to run for food and get shot? Or is that an excuse for why he burned up the emergency food that was there?

They don't televise his tens of thousands hunger victims in sharp black colors on Faux.

to be trying hard to convince the world that he's compassionate. It's a transitory phase, perhaps still hoping to get the Peace Prize. He does nothing for the sake of doing good. He only does something helpful if he has a reward coming. Problem is, his reward appetite is insatiable.

They’ll worship him until the last of them has died, leaving the world much better for their absence.

“too old”, “high prices”, “government giveaways”, “corrupt cities”…

How can ANYONE who claims to be a Christian agree or support trump or anyone in his administration. Sorry to tell you “Christians”, but Jesus really hates you.

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So many of us shaking our damned heads thinking about people we thought we knew well. WTF?

on edit: When he got away with mocking the disabled reporter, I knew Access Hollywood tape wouldn't take him down.

hem.

LOUDLY in microphones and on color teevees across the nation.

Risking to lose their election but taking a chance to win them to save Democracy.

They just hate most of the people who live in it.

The son of a bitch had them eating HORSE WORMER, (Ivermectin).
They were literally eating worming paste for livestock....
My brother in law was one of them and I thought he was a smart guy being a retired police captain.
Eating livestock horse worming paste...

really, seriously... how can anyone be ok with what is going on????

we know...could have a hidden mental or emotional aspect that leads them to see good where there is evil...bad where there is good...see godly behavior where there is greed/grift/dishonesty/narcissism on a galactic scale.

Still astonishing and chilling. Yes...how can they still do this??

...and then had to wrestle with the guilt and those sick feelings of regret? Have you ever said to yourself "Never again! That's just not me. I'm better than that?"

Apparently, MAGATS and Fundamentalist Christians just don't have those remorse genes.

Every day they synchronize their mendacious talking points, defend immorality and proudly applaud their insidious ways and means.

We can only hope that their next generation will rebel against the unprincipled and hypocritical example of their parents.

Are liberals mad? That’s all that matters.

And that goes for anything.

I'm not by nature a hater, and I generally want to think the best of all people. BUT I absolutely HATE DJT and his suck-up minions!

A constant diet of Fox, Breitbart, Newsmax, Sinclair will do it.

I asked her how she could she support him...he speaks the truth, she said.

I replied then she needs to go home and explain to her tween daughter how grabbing women by the * is perfectly acceptable behavior from men. It' just what they do, she needs to get used to it.

She hasn't spoken to me since.

I sometimes wonder what she thinks of him this time around.

good (relatively speaking, as in those MORE inclined to or trying to embrace nobler sentiment, empathy, compassion) vs. evil (as in those rejecting those sentiments as 'woke'... formerly known as 'bleeding hearts' - a mocking reference to imagery associated with the Person who they're supposedly followers of, but have come to mock Him too as too 'woke.')

So instead, they've embraced cruelty, hate, gluttony and avarice, they've fallen under sway of their Antichrist, and they are his disciples and followers. Cult of the Antichrist, as it were.

Anyway, just my two cents on the subject.

"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy." -- Benjamin Disraeli

That is the constant drumbeat of Right Wing media. Repetition makes it true.

A San Diego Trump supporter said he’s proud of what Trump is doing. Prices are going down and everything is improving. Not here in San Diego, prices are going up, but that is our Democratic governor’s fault. Everywhere else is doing great.

Dems are groomers and pedophiles.
Dems weaponized the DOJ
Joe Biden’s kids made millions by pedaling influence.
And on and on…..