“I voted for Trump, but I didn’t vote for this.”
I am so tired of reading this sentence everywhere on the internet right now.
Actually, they voted for this and they need to own that. They need to think harder about what their vote has done to minorities, women, and other disenfranchised communities.
They can’t learn a lesson without taking accountability for their part and recognizing how to change their part.
That means taking accountability for voting the way they did and changing that vote in the future.
Right now, people want to be rescued without the natural consequences of their actions.
They want the things they lost back without having to face the people that they happily harmed, that they still view as interior to them.
They want to keep voting Republican even though the party and almost all Republican politicians have endlessly lied to them and emboldened their hatred.
It’s still childish, weak behavior and I refuse to indulge what basically amounts to a tantrum rather than a thoughtful response to what the MAGA Republican party is doing to gut the government right now.
This is not, “I told you so.” (Though about 80 million of us have told you so.)
This is, “You created this reality and now you need to be part of the solution.”
I would like to move forward, but responsibility has to be taken, and reparations have to be made.
Until then, my response to all complaints from MAGAs is four words: “You created this reality.”
It is not my job to smooth over MAGA regret feelings.
You created this reality, and it’s your work to undo it now.
