MAGA must go.

Let US be Americans, first, again.

Having visited my birthplace over the summer of 2024 and seen rude church signs and ugly flags prominent in some locations, I think there are those who really do not understand why I don't like them. They take it as hate, but they behave in a way that doesn'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, China and/or Trump don't have to do a whole lot to get these Trumpcult 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 free speech.

I had a threat from MAGA, and sharing with MAGA family just got me more abuse. Evil is how you treat others, not the Democratic platform. There has been no repentance for this:

Despite silly 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, it most certainly amounts to state-sponsored terrorism, for the Trump administration to encourage and incite the MAGA mob.

We've lived through this before, and it is exhausting.

To be proud of putting families at risk of harassment from ignorant people, simply on the basis of decent folks hating Trump's abusive character, is some serious sickness.

Why are abuse and threats ok with so many Americans?:

How dare maga gaslight US about LIFE.

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

We don't [even] need apologies; we [just] 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 🇺🇸

She was right. When I wrote this, I thought common sense would win. I was wrong.

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 another 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, quite the opposite. 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, that violence is never ok, and that publishing the addresses of ordinary citizens, with no regard for families, is definitely not showing respect for life.

Not being loyal to the US Constitution, preferring some narcissistic wannabe tyrant instead, does not a patriot make. And not loving your neighbor does not make a Christian.

Violent people must be rebuked for how they have contributed to a culture of fear and anger. And they must be resisted without apology or fear, because they cannot act upon their base impulses, expressed in their calls for civil war and their demonization of peaceful neighbors, without betraying 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 the people will lose a lot too.

Free people have the high ground; the maga cult have embraced the dark side.

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. No violence and callousness is ok.

It is all out in the open now.

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

Free Americans have the right to allow or not allow whoever they want in their lives.

This is our home, and we don't deserve abuse for it.

It is a credit to our nation the rest of US have not been provoked into a civil war by angry, outraged, evil little fools.

MAGA must go. Trump will [ultimately] 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 facing and reckoning with 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 in the face of outrageous abuse of power and use of control.

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" was 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 or similar on holidays, and we don't apologize for any offense our freedom causes violently abusive people. 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 smear peaceful people as evil, and insist on working together. Trump called for punching people and paying legal fees of abusers from the start.

How about we raise the correct flag and reject Trump's abuses.

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!

I'm sad Kamala Harris didn't win. Much of this article has been rewritten because it didn't make sense, since I was assuming she would. I though Americans were better than this. Apparently a lot of Americans are just violent men, and no one else is welcome here.

I'd still trade maga for immigrants.

Immigrants don't storm our Capitol or threaten civil war.