A serious take on how MAGAs think. Please read. Thank you. [View all]

[DetlefK]

They are vain creatures, obsessed with social status.
Really.
That's it. Thank you for reading.









Still here? Let me put it this way: What do we want? A higher social status than the other guy.

How can we get a higher social status than the other guy? There are two ways:
1. Increase your own social status through hard work.
2. Decrease the other guy's social status through sabotage.

That's why the MAGAs love Trump's racism and all that red-pill-Hillary-Clinton-Seth-Rich-Qanon-deep-state-drain-the-swamp-Obama-is-a-Muslim stuff.

Instead of going through the hard work of being an actual good person, they elevate their own social status by inventing a fictional evil and then declaring themselves the heroes fighting that evil. This way they reduce YOUR social status, because YOU are too stupid to see the truth.

Consider these three choices:

a) You're a boring nobody out of Whogivesashit.

b) After many years of hard work, of service and sacrifices, you have finally earned the right to look down on that other guy.

c) By wearing a MAGA-hat and tweeting "no collusion", you have finally earned the right to look down on that other guy.



What do you think why they make all this trashy Third-Reich-style art depicting Trump as king or as Superman?
What do you think why they grovel before him?
They do not worship him. He is just a tool for them declaring themselves special.
THEY SECRETLY LOVE THE FACT THAT TRUMP IS LYING, BECAUSE HIS LIES ARE THE PERFECT TEMPLATE FOR THE "ALTERNATIVE FACTS" OF THEIR CONSPIRACY-THEORIES.



They love Trump's fascism, Trump's destruction of norms, because being against the system makes them look cool and edgy and special.



Oh, you want a real-life example? Here's one: Evangelicals.
Trump is perhaps the most unchristian President ever, but the Evangelicals support him anyways.
Why?
Because they want his political power. In order to parasitize on his power, the Evangelicals declared that he really is one of their own, facts be damned.



The MAGAs cannot turn against Trump.
They have invested themselves into this.
If they were to admit that Trump in fact is a bad person, that would not only reduce their current social status from "chosen one" to "normie". It would retroactively invalidate all their self-righteous past decisions and lower their social status to someone even below a "normie".

MAGAs cannot interpret the Mueller-report as anything other than a nothingburger, because otherwise they would have to admit that their life is built on a lie.