Thanks for a very interesting set of personal reflections. It brings into focus something that has been troubling me about the MAGA crowd, which is that they seem totally incapable of any self-examination or introspection. Their mindset is pure Roy Cohn–Attack, attack, attack! Deny, deny, deny! It seems to me that their agenda is simply to ensure the dominance of white male Christians, which they happily misidentify as liberty and freedom. And so, any restriction on white Christian people, especially males, such as being asked to not insult non-whites, non-Christians, or women, or to show respect to others than themselves, is seen as a completely unacceptable violation of their “constitutional right” to be shameless, selfish, greedy, sexist assholes, and any help given to people neither white nor male is viewed with great suspicion as “wokeness.”
Thanks for a very interesting set of personal reflections. It brings into focus something that has been troubling me about the MAGA crowd, which is that they seem totally incapable of any self-examination or introspection. Their mindset is pure Roy Cohn–Attack, attack, attack! Deny, deny, deny! It seems to me that their agenda is simply to ensure the dominance of white male Christians, which they happily misidentify as liberty and freedom. And so, any restriction on white Christian people, especially males, such as being asked to not insult non-whites, non-Christians, or women, or to show respect to others than themselves, is seen as a completely unacceptable violation of their “constitutional right” to be shameless, selfish, greedy, sexist assholes, and any help given to people neither white nor male is viewed with great suspicion as “wokeness.”
Bad times we are in. Do carry on nonetheless!