Matisyahu's Blog

Yeah, at the half way point of my shift – another 4 hours to go after my lunch break. In between serving customers I was watching a few videos and reading some articles regarding American women rejecting MAGA and Republican men and then MAGA and Republican men whining and complaining. I don’t know who needs to hear this but your politics are an outgrowth of your morals, your values, the ethnical framework you use to navigate the world. I saw one video where this guy was whining about it as if the differences were superficial and it was silly not to date a Republican or a MAGA man – pardon? we’re not talking about differences over whether the top tax rate should be 39.6% of 43.5% or whether there should be a mortgage interest tax deduction for first home buyers etc. but one party dehumanising undocumented immigrants and apparently that process of dehumanisation, according to that individual, should be treated the same way as arguing over tax rates.

What it tells me about that person is one of two things, the first being that he cannot understand why someone should care about something that doesn’t directly impact them which is why they don’t care if ‘the other’ is dehumanised because it doesn’t impact them directly – when your moral framework is based on “does it directly me” rather than on the basis of a shared humanity then it shouldn’t be surprising that people are able to sit by and allow horrific things happen without even the slightest flinch in horror. The second being the number of guys who are MAGA or Republican because of ‘the vibes’, the chest beating, the posturing, the sort of peacocking machismo on display by the podcast bros that convinced young men that politics is no deeper than perfective masculinity. Btw, the sort of performative masculinity that is on display is akin to a young boy dressing up in their father’s clothes and imitating ‘what it means to be a man’. I guess it is kind of cute when you’re young but when you become an adult and you’re still doing the equivalent of doing performative masculinity based on a shallow set of stereotypes then it be surprising that there is a whole generation of young men who were sucked into the MAGA and Republican bullshit vortex.