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Worriedman's avatar

In a country full of people leading meaningless lives, joining with others to fight against "evil" has a strong attraction for some.

They grind away at their shitty jobs, never quite making enough to keep the paper on the pickup truck away from the title loan guys. There's no hope for advancement, their health insurance, if they've got it, don't pay for shit and the best Christmas bonus they ever got was a $20 gift card from Kroger.

(My first job as a grower for a nursery gave the whole staff Kroger gift cards for $14.35 as a Christmas bonus. The owners said that was all the money they could afford. They went to Cancun for the holidays)

Their kids are doughy and not even very good at Xbox - crazy considering they spend a dozen hours a day playing. The old lady is in the same shape. She's got a shit job at Ten and Below.

She's a night shift supervisor. It's one of the last three places left in the mall and everybody expects the store to close any day. She drives a 10-year-old Hyundai it has the trunk wired shut. Title guys won't lend any money on it. They live in a shitty apartment with black mold under the bathroom vanity and a garbage disposal that never worked since they moved in. Rent went up 3 times last year.

For a while they got caught up in the big church that opened in the Kmart at the edge of town.

That was nice for a while - it's good to talk to other people who have the same shitty kind of life you do. Preachers always up your ass for money though.

Then this MAGA thing showed up. It was great hearing Trump talk shit on everybody and it made a lot of sense what he was saying - coloreds and queers and Mexicans and stuck up bitches having everything just given to them when all you get to do is work and worry. Being a MAGA and fighting against that - fighting for Freedom - why, that was even better than Church! And you get to carry guns ! Guns are just the best thing ever.

To tell you the truth, lately Trump's been as bad as those Preachers about asking for money.

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SundayStyle's avatar

Sometimes I wonder -- although this is an impossibility -- if Trump said "elections are valid, there has been no fraud" if these people would stand down, or if they no longer look to him but are so walled off in their grievance and crazy conspiracy theories they would carry on anyway.

But it's moot since he is no more likely to say that than a pig is likely to fly.

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