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The President of the United States hates you, hates your family, hates your community, hates your ancestors and hates your country.

Writing that sentence felt like I was saying something outrageous, like I was writing something unserious. And it is outrageous. But it’s also true. And it is serious. Trump despises everything and everyone except whomever is immediately gratifying and praising him. And what he hates, he wants to see humiliated and destroyed. We need to be serious about this. About who he is. He’s a simple person. He has a very narrow range of emotions and concepts. It’s obvious from a lifetime of behavior and from every single thing that he says. And it’s obvious that he hates this country. He hates America. He hates our history of social progress and work towards equality. He hates the working people who actually appreciate the small things they can acquire. Who work excessively to provide for their families, and who endure countless hardships he would find atrocious, horrifying and degrading. He hates the sacrifices of the US military and its service members. Hates honesty and integrity and freedom. He hates what is legitimately great about America.

Dr. Salk invented the polio vaccine and chose not to patent it, so as to allow its ease of access to society at large. Dr. Martin Luther King led millions-strong protests, went to jail and was shot to death for non-violent anti racism. Harriet Tubman continuously broke the law and faced death so as to liberate her family and people from bondage. These people are America. They embody what this country is in its core and why it’s been able to exist for the past 259 years. Trump sees these Americans as chumps, losers. He hates them. He is the least patriotic man alive.

Donald Trump is an offense to America. And he has cultivated a pathological bigotry in his followers, who’ve apparently lost what’s human in them—warmth, kindness, reflection—and have become empty shells. Human-like but inhuman. We are a country that hates itself. MAGA also hate Americans. They hate you. They hate me. They hate everything that’s allowed us—and them—to be here. Everyone has to wake up and take this seriously. This is the only thing that matters in this moment.

Donald Trump thinks human rights are for suckers. That the Constitution is an emasculating parody. That the American people can be wiped out for a buck. He and his followers are committing a crime against history. Against humanity. Against civilization. Please wake up.

This is 9/11 shit, except MAGA are Al-Qaeda. They’re still Americans too, but they’re hostile to themselves. Remember: MAGA is a death cult. Like every death cult, the only logical conclusion is suicide. Whether or not the cult gets there is the question.

And remember too that cult members can be rehabilitated.

This country is a product of colonialism and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Have no doubt. But the United States and American legitimacy was founded on good faith principles: that all people are equal and have inalienable rights, that all people have the right to freedom and their own happiness. It’s these principles that have allowed us to make what progress we have in this country, and have allowed the country and its people to genuinely work towards progress. Progress for women, black folks, folks with disabilities, LGBTQ folks. And this progress is incomplete, and nowhere near enough, but it’s still substantial. We owe it ourselves, our country, our ancestors and the future generations to preserve and expand this progress, no matter the cost. To make sure that the peoples who come after us retain what’s good in us, and live to see brighter days. We’re only here because our ancestors took this obligation seriously. And someday we will be the ancestors.

What can we do? Protest. Protest. Protest. Be loud. Be obnoxious. Be uncompromising. Be unafraid. Don’t believe they have power. American legitimacy is ours. It’s happened before that we had to show history and the world what America is. And it’s happening again. We have to do it. And we can. The Civil Rights movement worked because its participants were willing to die for a cause. That’s how history happens, good or bad. History is happening to us. Have hope. Don’t hurt anyone. Show up. Speak.

We need sit-ins and general strikes. We need American flags and praise to the Constitution, the Declaration and their principles. Veneration of Americans who embodied the soul of this nation—workers, protestors, authors, scholars, poets, warriors, nurses and midwives. The whole god damn country. From sea to shining sea.

‘You must do the things you think you cannot do.’ -Eleanor Roosevelt

Originally Posted By u/SMOKED_REEFERS At 2025-04-18 06:49:39 PM | Source