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Showing Original Post only (View all)MAGA Suddenly Wants 'Common Ground' When Trump Hurts THEM? [View all]
MAGA voters are suddenly talking about finding common ground. Now that the policies they supported are hitting their own lives, they want unity and cooperation. But lets be honest about what actually happened. Millions of people voted for a candidate with felony convictions. They voted against womens rights. They voted against gun reform. They voted against raising the minimum wage, universal healthcare, and taxing the wealthy.
Those votes had consequences.
Now that the same cruelty, dishonesty, and reckless leadership are starting to affect their own wallets, their own healthcare, and their own families, the call suddenly becomes lets come together. But accountability matters. Political choices matter. You cant spend years supporting policies that harm others and then ask for immediate forgiveness when the damage circles back.
This conversation is about responsibility. Democracy only works when voters own the outcomes of the leaders and policies they support. If the country is going to move forward, it starts with honesty about the choices that got us here.
Those votes had consequences.
Now that the same cruelty, dishonesty, and reckless leadership are starting to affect their own wallets, their own healthcare, and their own families, the call suddenly becomes lets come together. But accountability matters. Political choices matter. You cant spend years supporting policies that harm others and then ask for immediate forgiveness when the damage circles back.
This conversation is about responsibility. Democracy only works when voters own the outcomes of the leaders and policies they support. If the country is going to move forward, it starts with honesty about the choices that got us here.
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And when he's gone, & the drama & chaos die down, & things seem better, who will they vote for?
CrispyQ
Mar 17
#4
A sensible question. I'll warmly welcome there blue-vote... but I'm not going to be their friend, or their...
QueerDuck
Mar 18
#44
If you MAGAs out there want common ground with us "Dummy-crats" and "libs," you'll have to prove
Vogon_Glory
Mar 17
#6
The simple fact that they voted for an adjudicated rapist was all that I ever needed to know about those that support
chowder66
Mar 17
#15
Especially not after laughing and saying "screw them, their libs, let their houses burn"
ChicagoTeamster
Mar 17
#23
If they decide they want to vote blue 'cause of the leopard eating their face, I welcome them unconditionaly with open
Fil1957
Mar 17
#25