PorkrollPosadist on Nostr: I dislike how the media finally took a liking to the term "Blue MAGA" as a stand-in ...

I dislike how the media finally took a liking to the term "Blue MAGA" as a stand-in for Biden "cultists." The farce at the core of MAGA is the belief that we can turn back time, reverse entropy, and return to a golden age age when America wasn't woke and you could pay for medical school by mowing lawns. This was mirrored deeply in the psyche of post-Trump Liberals, who wished we could turn back time, reverse entropy, and return to a golden age when 'politics' was fundamentally about compromise, and our institutions dutifully and nobly carried out the missions stated in their charters.

The core, common critique here is that both are deeply nostalgic for an age which never existed. In their hands they hold a pile of ashes, and they are convinced that, with the grace of God, they can turn it back into a tree. And they keep getting upset when people try to tell them those ashes came from a garbage incinerator.