In more evidence of the poisonous power of decades of divisive, reason-terminating MAGA demagoguery, The Hill reports about fired federal employees facing relatives who celebrate their firing:
Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face
relatives who celebrate their firing
Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some laid-off federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their firing.
The country’s bitterly tribal politics are spilling into text chains, social media posts and heated conversations as Americans absorb the reality of the government’s cost-cutting measures. Expecting sympathy, some axed workers are finding family and friends who instead are steadfast in their support of what they see as a bloated government’s waste.
“They can’t separate their ideology and their politics from supporting their own family and their own loved ones,” says [24-year-old Luke Tobin, fired last month from his job as a technician with the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest].
Jenn
As she [Kristin Jenn, National Park Service ranger, Denali National Park and Preserve] has expressed her disappointment over potentially losing her dream job, some members of her mostly conservative family have unfriended her on social media. Others are giving her the silent treatment. Nearly all favor such cuts even if she’s a victim of them. “[My mom, a former federal employee] has somehow been convinced that public servants are a parasite and unproductive even though she was a public servant.” (emphasis added)
Somehow been convinced. What could have possibly poisoned the mind of Jenn's mom into the false belief that her own daughter is an unproductive parasite? Facts about Jenn's work? Nope. Good faith reasoning? Nope. Solid evidence of actual waste, fraud and abuse? Absolutely not. Decades of poisonous, authoritarian MAGA demagoguery, lies and slanders? Yup.
Q: At what point do minds that try to stay in emotional control, lose control in the face of MAGA's unrelenting, insulting lies, cruelty, slanders, deep corruption, authoritarianism, morally rotted bad faith and hate-driven malice? Or, are the opponents of MAGA and its poison to just stay silent and accept their fate at the hands of (i) evil, malice-driven elite MAGA liars and crooks, and (ii) non-elite MAGA minds tricked by MAGA demagoguery into deceit-driven, immature cruelty?
