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MAGA "victimhood" is a major recruitment tool for violence
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They took the tactic from modern day Christian televangelism.
They use Trump as the focus of a belief system
They twist the old and outdated morality of hyper patriotism and conservative values. They do this in order to cherry-pick rules and laws to form a grotesque dogma that bares little resemblance to the original intention of said laws and morality.
They then use the twisted dogma to manipulate the population. They do this by feeding into the fears of poverty, 'evil', xenophobia, and racism. Then they offer solutions to those issues so long as they tithe (donate money), worship, and "spread the good news."
The solutions offered are wildly unrealistic… Free money for loyalty? Killing a whole group of people?
Unless your name is Israel, those solutions are obviously a farce to anyone with even the smallest amount of situational awareness and common sense.
That's why a lot of the Trump propaganda dulls the common sense and attempts to rewrite the memory of others using memes and obvious lies.
You have to essentially hypnotize people into believing that they are being oppressed, attacked, and that everyone but those a part of the belief system are evil baby-eaters.
One of the major reasons that fundamental Christians and the tea party generation are such numerous Trumpism supporters…
The hard work of brainwashing them was already done by another religion. All the MAGA leaders had to do was swap out one god for another.
It worked for ancient Rome, and it's working here.
In other words Trump is the anti-Christ.
I'm not Christian, but I did study Christian mythology while working on my doctorate in philosophy.
There are several near universal signs that a person is the Anti-Christ
✅ Religious Leader - As I pointed out, MAGA is arguably a fanatic cult within the Christian belief system
✅ Come in the name of Jesus - He literally used his power as president to take a picture of himself in front of a church with a bible while people were protesting him. He also likens himself to Jesus whenever he faces the consequences of his actions, like one of his impeachments.
✅ Preforming 'miracles' - He has falsely taken credit for miracles of modern technology, like the quickness of the successful COVID vaccine, predicting the paths of weather phenomenon, and even gender equality in the work force.
✅ He will be elected to a place of great leadership and use his 'power' to change laws and 'fix' a broken society - See the year 2016 through 2020
❌ Denies Jesus existed IRL - He's not outright said it, but due to his actions, he does not act like a believer in Christian mythology
✅ Rejects the laws of the Christian god - Through his actions and inaction, he does not live by the laws of Christianity. His violations range from divorces, hurting others, to being incredibly wealthy... The list goes on and on.
✅ Persecute Christians - The whole point of the MAGA Republicans and its propaganda is to target people who are Christians and make them bend to the will of Trump.
This is only a matter of time
I agree 100% - It's an eventuality.
As of right now, Trump simply acts like it. Actions speak louder than words sometimes.
There is no topic he hasn't taken both sides on. Just a miracle for him no one's got him on tape yet. Or they keep those tapes under wraps.
Hell, I bet you would only have to ask him like three times before he says no jesus wasn't real.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in like 50 years when they are able to open the CIA archives to the public on everything top secret that Trump did.
I'd bet half of the GOP would be in chains if that stuff came out today, let alone what Trump has said.
I agree.
But just to be clear, they are not hyper patriots, they are hyper nationalists.