MAGA must go.

Let US be Americans, first, again.

Having visited my birthplace over the summer and seen the church signs and ugly flags that persist in some locations, I think there are those who really do not understand why we don't like them. They take it as hate, but they behave in such a way they don't deserve US.

Trump supporters are increasingly being appropriately marginalized by free Americans for their abuse, but I think we need to be very firm with these abusers until the MAGA movement is gone. They aren't working for US; they are lazily ceding power to abusive rich guys and stupidly serving our enemies' interests. Russia and/or Trump don't have to do a whole lot to get these fools to terrorize their neighbors. We should all have the support of fellow Americans, not abuse on top of threats for existing or exercising our rights.

And what Tim Walz has said about not being able to talk to family at Thanksgiving? All of that. I had a threat from MAGA, and sharing with MAGA-adjacent family just got me more abuse! :

Can you imagine sharing with family members examples of MAGA threats mentioned in the media, stating that you had a threat yourself, and being called "psycho" or told you are overreacting, despite the fact you had to report the threat to law enforcement and feared for your family's safety because of such terrorism? I don't have to imagine. How MAGA family have reacted to MAGA abuse is not just weird to me, it is also quite vile.

The response below is something that resonates in light of the abuse we have gone through:

I will never forgive anyone who voted for Trump. They have actively, clearly, unreservedly, GLEEFULLY called for harm to be done to me and mine. When this is over and Trump is in jail they do not get to say, “Bygones.” and walk away as if it never happened.

And they will. Like Nazis declaring they never really supported Hitler they will deny they ever were in favor of Trump. They’ll try to gaslight us and say the yard signs we saw in their yard were never there, that the photos of them in red hats were photoshopped.

As they always have, they’ll deny responsibility for their actions and whine they they’re the real victims here because we insist on pointing out their crimes.

Well, f*ck that. They eagerly supported the greatest threat to our freedom and country we have ever seen and that needs to be hung around their necks until the day they die.

We should not hasten that day and to that extent we can live “peacefully” with them. Not raise a hand violently against them but never let a day pass without reminding everyone just who they are. - Christopher Foxx 

I wrote a few things myself this week, including:

It has been a mindf*ck to find out that after not fitting in in evangelical circles in the UK for being American, I am not welcome to be myself in American evangelical circles, having been one of their missionary kids. Nationalism is thicker than evangelicalism, it would seem. But I had always felt that the church was global and was my home, a family in the world but not of it. That sense of community has been both blown out of the water by Trumpism and Brexit and renewed by online communities of pastors who actually do value those of us who do not fit it  even tho I take issue with the necessity of fitting in. I matter  because we all matter. I fit in because I exist. I am human, even tho I had a different experience to you. It is wrong that churches are often the most unwelcoming places for people who are honest about what they have experienced. We should not have to hide our grief or joy- we should have it validated there. That’s all, that’s it. It’s all about love.

So let's put all this in context, not just of January 6th or MAGA cruelty to immigrants and refugees, but of how Americans have been treated by this quasi-Nazi movement as well. We have been living in a culture of increasing and ongoing terroristic threat because of Trump and his MAGA minions. They don't just riot and dox and swat people and say "well the left do it", they abuse their own family members. It has led us to a place where it is impossible to be ourselves around people we have once had peaceful relationships with, family members we have trusted with our lives have proven they are literally able to turn on us in a heartbeat, if we refuse on American and moral principle to support that angry old man.

Despite their threats, the worst danger is not civil war, it is a culture of terror, where doxxing is mainstreamed into a means of control, to the point of the state weaponizing it against citizens who work in federal jobs or teach kids, as loyal to the US Constitution and not to a religion or man. When the "conservatives" are making lists of American citizens to target, that is not normal, yes, it is weird, and it most certainly would amount to state-sponsored terrorism, were Tom Jones in Bardstown, KY to share those names and addresses with the MAGA mob. To be proud of putting families at risk of harassment from ignorant people, simply on the basis of not liking Trump or even following the Constitution against any partisan pressure, is some serious sickness. We have Republicans willing to threaten federal workers as partisan, and they are proud of it, while calling themselves the party of life. I am sure they would be singing a different tune if their families got the kinds of threats MAGA have made to fellow Americans, even on their side.

As I also said this week:

Having been doxxed before, men like these disgust me. Kevin Roberts is a Nazi and this dude’s behavior is beyond unacceptable abuse. How dare he be so cavalier with other people’s lives? We don’t serve a king; if MAGA want one, they are free to move to Russia. This constant refusal to live and let live is exactly why we the people will vote blue in November. MAGA think they can intimidate US with threats. Well, we regret we have but one life each to give for our country. You make peaceful people angry by harassing them, you are already about to lose. Leave. US. In. Peace. Being loyal to the Constitution is American; these MAGA are the traitors to want US to submit to Donold. How dare they. The answer is no. 🇺🇸

PS: what’s his home address? I’m sure he’d be fine with it being publicized. No? Why ever not?

Btw I am not advocating doxxing. I’m just asking questions. Like Fox. (Again, I do not want anyone’s family to be harassed, ever, to be clear.) Think. MAGA is so beyond the pale there are no words to describe how evil they are. 😡

How dare they gaslight US about LIFE.

How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it!

Russia's Useful Republicans have done damage to our unity with their violent threats; all of this intimidation just shows exactly how little they care about families, life or freedom.

We don't need apologies; we need change.

“Someone who suggests we should terminate the Constitution of the United States should never again stand behind the seal of the President of the United States!” Kamala Harris 🇺🇸

Like I said - We could have such freedom, such a deep healing in this country and the world, if the fundamentalists could simply see the hurting people on the outside of their exclusion zone, people they wronged with hate and pride and judgement, and determine to devote the rest of their lives to repentance, rebuking threats of revenge or retribution in their own communities. We don't need apologies, and we can't all reconcile; we need change. Melt the hardness of hearts. The abusers cannot demand forgiveness from victims they continue to lord it over. There must be a turning of hearts. We cannot go back to what was. We must heal out of what is.

For freedom.

So how do we do this?

It cannot be that we have an election then go back to what was.

There have to be consequences for the kind of terrorism we have experienced in our own families. They don't get to demand a relationship with us after participating in our abuse. I am all for forgiveness where people are actually doing the life-long work of repentance, but that is not what we are seeing quite yet. A vote for Harris as opposed to Trump is only a start in the right direction; there must be actual willingness to listen to those you have harmed and learn why you are wrong. It is possible that a generation will pass on without ever reconciling with their relatives in the younger generations, and that may be the only way we move forward, but wow, what a tragedy to be so brainwashed as to hate your own kids, not to mention your own fellow citizens.

It is right that we call weirdness weird, that we point out that civil war threats and tantrums are not normal, and that publishing the addresses of federal workers and public servants, with no regard for their families, is definitely not showing respect for our Constitution or for our troops. Not being loyal to the US Constitution for some narcissistic wannabe tyrant does not make you a patriot.

These people who do this must be the ones being scrutinized for terroristic threats and connections. They must be rebuked for how they have contributed to a culture of fear, not freedom. And even if they win the election, they must be resisted without apology or fear, because they cannot act upon their impulses without betraying their alleged "pro Life" values.

If they get families murdered and swatted and dragged out of their beds in the middle of the night, as some of them want to see happen, when they get their "civil" war, they will necessarily lose the country. But were that to happen, we will lose a lot too.

We have the high ground; they have embraced the dark side.

What I have observed over the past weeks is that we are coming out of a trauma of narcissistic abuse that has done real harm to the Biden family, amongst many others. Those who have been weaponizing "justice" against US are not willing to submit themselves to the same abuses of power, let alone to the same legal standards they demand for everyone else.

What is so powerful about Kamala Harris' campaign is that she really is the real deal; she really did prosecute criminals, and these lawless abusers are using a criminal to further their abusive power grab ends. They have sacrificed morality to demand everyone else follow the law of their god, but they don't even appear to believe in a good God themselves. What is so powerful about this moment is we can see a way forward without fear.

They can't act on every single big talk threat they make, without literally committing genocide, which belies their claim to the moral high ground. They have been exposed, and we should not tolerate their lies. It is powerful to be able to call out the lies because we have dispensed with this notion that we need to come together with abusive liars. Biden tried really hard to unite US, but you can't unite with people who want you dead or don't care if you die. There needs to be a reckoning with the lack of humanity in exposing people's addresses on the internet and excusing yourself by comparing to others' behavior. Abuse has to be called out, absolutely abhorred, and stopped.

It is powerful to see a woman called out rape. It is shameful how many people willingly supported an overt misogynist and racist.

It is all out in the open now.

You cannot have the moral high ground if you indulge in abusing whole families. And even if they do release information about individuals, when MAGA do inevitably take the law into their own hands, MAGA would make martyrs of Americans.

There can be healing in this nation, but to do that, the attacks on progress must stop, the intimidation tactics must go, and MAGA must be marginalized as the narcissistic abusers they are, capable of escalating to terroristic in attitude and behavior.

That such a statement offends Republicans, shows how far gone they are.

And just because it is offensive to some, does not mean it should not be said. The truth must be spoken freely and firmly, no matter what terror tactics the abusers may continue to use.

Free Americans have the right to allow or not allow whoever they want in their lives, and we do not owe enemies, whether foreign or domestic, any place in our country.

This is our home, and we are the majority.

Those who cannot live and let live without attempts to control the rest of US do not deserve our freedoms, and when they abuse our Constitutional rights and try to take our freedoms, those lawless control freaks must be rebuked by the rule of law. We are not coming from a place of less power than these people. It is a credit to our nation we have not been provoked into a civil war by these angry, outraged, evil little fools.

MAGA must go. Trump will lose. Project 2025 will be remembered as a fool's errand. Outrage is unsustainable. Only love is the way forward for our nation. Love is a compelling message, and freedom is what we are all about. It does not negate the years of abuse we are coming out of right now, but it is a start for our healing together. Some of us have been wronged, others have been brainwashed. We must be gentle with each other. But we do not need to censor ourselves anymore in the face of outrageous abuse of power and use of control. There are not two equally moral sides here, guys. Pay attention.

We must never comply with the cruel, the cowardly, the liars, the thieves and the thugs. They might well try to smear us, lie about us, accuse us, threaten our freedoms and our families, and yet we will stand firm on what is true. Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of happiness: these are our values, and shame on all of those who have tried to shake US from them!

We cannot just forgive, and we do not need an apology. We need change, not revenge. "We will not go back" is both a statement of decision and of fact. We cannot go back to the way we were. Those who have wronged US must change, and how we deal with abusers must change. We don't go eat with MAGA on holidays, and we don't apologize for any offense our freedom causes them. We will live free, and if or when MAGA are ready to just be American again, we are here for them.

But no, y'all don't get to demand forgiveness, and insist on unity. There is no unity between abusers and their victims, especially when the abuser continues to threaten retribution without being rebuked at all. Republicans have been complete cowards.

The only way forward is to insist on the Union forever, to the elimination of all betrayal. Raise the correct flag and down with Trump. We can't just forgive unrepentant Republicans:

The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah!

Down with the traitor, up with the star;

While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again,

Shouting the battle cry of freedom!

MAGA must go. Americans will live free. What we do here does impact our world.