Matisyahu's Blog

I finished watching the following video – I can’t help but get the feeling that a lot of FAFO content is hopium for non-MAGA to believe that there will be this giant ‘ah-ha moment’ where those who voted for MAGA will realise how wrong they were and will become Democrats.

I’m sorry but I don’t believe that these people will ever change given that their political world view is based on vibes not a robust understanding of reality. The people complaining how about Trump were the same people who, during George W Bush, would wear 10 gallon hats, cowboy boots, claim that ‘these colours don’t run’, would obnoxious talk about buying their ‘freedom fries’ and shout “freedom ain’t free!” along with “support our troops” with the icing on the cake being “we don’t cut and run”. Funny how 8 years later the economy crashed, the United States were stuck in two quagmires and these same people claimed that they were always against it or tried to excuse their support by claiming that they were lied into the war (even though there were millions of people in the US and around the world with the same evidence saw that it was a lie).

The problem is that there is a sizeable section of any population whose understanding of politics is akin to supporting their local football team because they like they name, the cool jersey design, the prevalence of its profile in the community they live etc. The net result is that you have people who vote based on the vibes of a campaign – not an understanding of the policy platform but rather than vibes of the campaign and whether they resonate with those vibes. The net result? people who voted for George W Bush who then became involved with the Tea Party then jumped on board the Trump train aka MAGA – all contradictory movements and you’d be hard pressed to get many of them to explain their position regarding politics based on who they voted for.

Getting back to the original point, long story short, you cannot reason someone out of something that they never reasoned themselves into. As so long as there are people who attach themselves to a political movement based on emotions then the idea that such individuals will suddenly change their world view is simply foolish. MAGA voters were warmed exactly what would happen, they ignored the warning and are only now caring because negative things are occurring to them but truth be told if those bad things were happening to other people but not themselves then they wouldn’t care – it’s all about the vibes until they’re negatively impacted. Time will pass and there will be another Trump, they’ll fall back in line and vote for Republican – nothing learnt, no evolution of ones political world view, just going through the motions.