This is an interesting thing. Looks like testimonies of people who left the MAGA movement- how they got into it and why.
Leaving a cult is really hard, so I really respect the people who are speaking from this place.
Yes, actually.
Look, I know people want to react to the ‘leopards eating faces party’ with a big fat 'told you so,’ but these are ex-cultists who are reaching out to people who may need an exit with a soft landing.
People who are deeply in a cult are afraid to leave it and MAGA is no exception! There’s a fear that once you leave, you won’t be accepted by anyone, so they stay even if they no longer believe in their rhetoric.
A very intelligent person can fall for a cult if they feel that it can offer them something they’re missing. The outside world is perilous and you can be safe here. Your friends will reject you now that you’ve joined us, but we will accept you. Decisions are hard, we can make them for you. The secular world has broken you, we can give you new life through christ.
If you read some of the testimonies (and so many of them are young people) you’ll see how much of it is 'I didn’t see it, it took someone I love to show it to me, I can’t unsee it now.’ We’ve all done things we regret. Some regrets are bigger than others. I would rather forgive them and allow them to do good work than berate them for a decision they made when compromised by anxiety.
If you want to punish them, that’s up to you.
But yeah. I think we should cheer for them.
This is going around Facebook right now
And it’s 100% the sentiment that needs to be cultivated. If you want MAGA to go away or be diminished, then you have to give people grace when they leave. Not only that, but you literally have to make it as easy as possible, or all you’re doing is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
This is very important - especially for the very black & white / all or nothing mentality that is always all over tumblr
People can change- we actually want them to change and wake up to what they were in the middle of. Don’t punish the actions & choices that you want to see from people.
You know how as a teen when you finally left your room & your parents made some comment about finally leaving your cave. Or now you decided to finally join us. And you felt rejected, angry, defiant & probably decided to spend even less time with them in the future? That’s the kind of thing you want to avoid inflicting on those who left that cult.
It’s very difficult to come face to face with something you did- that was harmful and take ownership of that.
If this triggers you a lot- you might want to collect some resources for leaving maga or cults. So if some family member or old friends comes to you for guidance or support- you don’t accidentally shame them back into the cult they tried to leave.
You don’t have to be the one who helps explain or educate people if it’s too difficult for you. But at the very least have some resources ready.
When a Nazi white guy is killed and everybody black all the lgbts all the lefties all the Muslims all the Latinos everybody every fucking body is expected to show remorse and apologize and plead in fear meanwhile they get to round up whoever they want bomb whoever they want and never apologize for any of it we are agreeing to the premise that this is their country. They get to exercise the right to violence but we don’t even when it’s literally white men who are killing them like how cucked do u have to be to sit there remorseful about this every white man in America needs to be scared right now you can’t fight all of us and your own bitch
So this is definitely a case of “we did not expect Harvard to fight back and we forgot they have billions of dollars and the best lawyers”
“we forgot that they have almost forty billion dollars. most of the people we pick on do not have almost forty billion dollars, or really any number of billions of dollars, and we are realizing that ‘almost forty billion’ is a big variable to leave out of your strategic calculations. really cannot emphasize enough that we have not racked up a lot of experience bullying - specifically - targets who possess close to forty billion U.S. dollars”
They also forgot what Harvard makes, its primary reason for existence: lawyers.
Yep. If you’re a Harvard grad, and you’re not a doctor, you’re probably a high end lawyer. And alums are pissed.
