Make America Great Again. The “again,” part of that mantra always bothered me. We can almost all agree no one group of people has had it “great,” except for old white men.
In 1905, poet and philosopher, George Santayana said, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
As a personal philosophy, we agree this happens. We fuck around. We find out. We learn. We improve. Hopefully, we don’t repeat the same patterns, but we often do.
An entire voting party wants the rest of the world to not only forget history, but to ache for it, if we feel anything positive about the past. We are to ache for it and ask for more lies and white washes.
MAGA legislators are forcing unwilling participants to live in a time period of “again,” when only rich white men could thrive. It feels surreal because it is.
Politics are supposed to advance us in society. Laws and rules are to guide us in a new, more improved direction. We are supposed to use current information AND history to decide our future. Telling us to go back to “Great Again” serves only the American Oligarchs.
It always has. It always will.
I never agreed to Donald Trump’s version of “great again.” Republicans are forcing their “greatness” on all of us. They’re condemning all of us to repeat a history some of us have NEVER LIVED IN at all.
Who are they to speak for all and condemn all of us to their refusal to be present now, currently. The United States was founded under the enlightenment ideals of liberalism and what Thomas Jefferson called, “the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Republicans do none of those things. Their life causes women to die. Their Liberty causes nine-year-old’s funerals by going to school. As for the pursuit of happiness, the GOP is not a friend of pursuing “contentment,” let alone, “happiness.”
The pendulum needs to swing faster the other way to correct this “greatness.”
Something more needs to be done. Our ability to salute the American flag is falling apart before our eyes. We are not on a “slippery slope.” We are in an avalanche started by greed of one generation being chased even harder by the next.
The evil won’t let up. The evil occurring WILL NOT REST, so the brave and good in us all must rise up.
Queen Buttercup Speaks 
2 responses to “The Greatness of MAGA & Being Condemned to Repeat History”
I couldn’t agree more. I don’t understand the Republican Party, or when, at least the Party’s change. Thinking back over the many past presidential elections and I can’t remember someone, anyone, who couldn’t admit a loss. The country spoke and sided with Biden. Former president Trump would not concede. He wouldn’t allow President Obama’s portrait hung in the White House. He was a little whiny bitch who couldn’t understand he lost. The events of January 6th make me physically ill. How are others not able to see Trump for who he is, which is a selfish coward. He needs to be incarcerated and should never be allowed to run for any office. It will be a scary and dangerous time, should he be allowed in politics.
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It’s so past one guy that it’s now a world philosophy. Trump was cancer. The whole world got it, and the treatment is being mocked or burned by DeSantis in Florida. They want the cancer. The loooooooove the cancer.
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