Maga
January 1, 2024
MAGA
To my Maga friends, a bit of advice. I'm not trying to change you; I just want to help you become a better Maganite.
· Please read a newspaper every day. They don't always get it right but journalists are just good people trying to gather the facts of the world. They might get something wrong, but they never fake the news.
· Please stop wearing all those goofy clothes – the flag shirts, the AR-15 shirts, the baseball caps – when you go to rallies for Your Guy. You need to provide at least a bit of the dignity Your Guy seems unable to muster on his own.
· Please buy yourself a good globe so that you can see that we are all in one world and we have to relate to, and interact with, each other – all the billions of us.
· There are millions of us who believe the Supreme Court stole an election from Al Gore and gave it to George Bush. We got over it. For whatever reason, Your Guy lost in 2020. Get over it.
· Your women need to get together and tell Your Guy that the disrespect he has for them is not acceptable. Clearly, your men don't have the balls to do it.
· When Your Guy says he wants to be a dictator why do you not throw up your hands in horror and turn off his microphone?
· So many of you are deeply religious, evangelically so, and yet you worship at the altar of a Guy who has no religious background or foreground. You shouldn't embrace hypocrisy and call it faith.
· So many of you are deeply political, passionately so, and yet you pay homage to a Guy who has no political philosophy, no beliefs, and no agenda other than doing what advances his popularity/notoriety.
· The next time an indictment comes down for Your Guy don't send him money or buy his swag. Pray for him. It's what you do and you like that.
· Traditional marriage is important to you Maganites. You need to encourage Your Guy to at least like his wife, perhaps even to love her. Do you know her name? Does he?
· Your Guy has expressed admiration for the likes of Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Viktor Orban. These are not good people and you need to tell Your Guy to get out of that particular sandbox.
· It's laughable when Your Guy talks about the Other Guy being too old for the job when Your Guy is a mere thirty-six months younger. Your Guy really needs to focus on other people's views, arguments, policies, and programs and not their personal characteristics.
· You might want to tell Your Guy to stop calling other people nasty names, too. Such a tactic is called argumentum ad hominem and it makes the user look like a fool. Other people think Your Guy is a fool but you don't so you might want to pass this along.
[Full Disclosure: I have no Maga friends.]
G.K. Wuori ©2024
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