MAGAS are Confused
Hypocrisy is Rife
As Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida, Ron Desantis refused to accept a phone call from the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris. The people of Florida will need government assistance after two grueling hurricanes. I can’t imagine that Desantis will turn down federal aid. He never has done so. Yet, he refused Kamala’s phone call. If you can’t show a little respect for the woman herself, you’d think he could at least muster up the intestinal fortitude to show respect to the office of Vice President itself.
I swallowed a string of expletives when I read about his childish behavior. If a grown man can’t put aside his hate as his state faces another catastrophe, it’s hopeless. Communication between the two parties is nonexistent.
How do we run a country where one party is unwilling to talk to the other?
Furthermore, the infamous Project 2025 wants to privatize the NOAA and make changes to FEMA.
So here we are in another uncomfortable quandary where Republicans take a massive chunk of federal funds to rebuild disaster zones while claiming what they really want is to do away with the very hand that assists with these projects.
This level of confusion is so daunting that I believe it keeps their followers from asking the right questions of the leaders. They’ve mastered the art of talking out of both sides of their mouths thereby creating a level of confusion the likes of which I’ve not ever witnessed before in my lifetime.
Chaos and confusion reign, and it’s taking it’s toll on society.
This level of hypocrisy filters into everything Republicans claim to believe. As they rant and rave about what they consider to be moral issues, they often turn around and do something far worse. To tell you the truth, I’ve seen that kind of behavior in the staunchly religious since I was a child. I noticed the elders in the church, often obsessed with someone else’s lifestyle, turned around and did things far worse in their own private lives.
A good example is Bridget Ziegler, the co-founder of Moms for Liberty, who participated in threesomes with her husband and another woman. I mean, I just can’t ….
She’s pulling books off shelves and tormenting hardworking teachers in a kind of moral outrage and then going home and crawling into bed with her husband and another woman. How do you not feel confused by this kind of outrageous behavior?
A relative of mine who is quite religious and of course a MAGA devotee claims to be voting for the party of family values. In his sanctimonious eyes, the LGBTQ community is a threat to American family values. In his fervor to take the moral high road, he believes that the gay couple down the street is a bigger threat to his children than the fact that he recently left his wife. Now, let’s be honest. Who do you think threatens his children’s sense of security more, the gay couple down the street or the fact that their dad abandoned their mom?
I know what psychologists would say.
If I had the time and was so inclined, I could give one example after another of confusion and chaos that the Republican Party creates. There’s hardly a day goes by that I don’t read yet another article that smacks of hypocrisy.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why so many people still get emotionally charged by the MAGA message. It’s freaking exhausting for me to be on the sidelines merely witnessing the chaos secondhand. It’s got to be more than a lower IQ. Right? A PhD student studying human behavior has probably already written a paper on this all-too-common phenomenon.
What on earth makes humans do what they do? I don’t get it.
Teresa is an author and professional mythbuster. You can find her books on Amazon.
