I’ve seen MAGA flipping out in the last couple of days because they are finally starting to realize that their friends and family are holding THEM accountable for prices going up. They are trying desperately to break the thread between political decisions and global consequences. They’re losing that feeling of invincibility they’ve had for a few years. Now everything Trump says and does is going to come back to them.
Good.
If you’re still on Trump’s crazy train and haven’t realized that the guy you hitched your wagon to is the most dangerous, uninformed, immoral 79 year old toddler with a loaded gun and that the least he could have done is looked at a map to see that the Strait of Hormuz is bordered by Iran, then you shouldn’t be surprised that no one, and I do mean NO ONE, wants to hear the GOP generated word salad talking point du jour coming out of your mouth.
Do you want to know why? It’s because electing Trump was an act of supreme hatred for the rest of us and an abandonment of your country and what it stands for. You decided Trump was great because he made the rest of us cry. Uh, no one was crying. We were just waiting for the sh*t to hit the fan. And now it’s here.
You made it very personal.
I’m not done.
Let’s take on the left for a moment.
Do you know what it’s like to be a white woman these days who is also Boomer, Gen Jones or Gen X? It’s infuriating. It feels like every receptionist in a doctor’s office or cashier has decided to be rude and disrespectful. Or maybe they’re just dumb. The number of insane assumptions they are making lately is incredible.
It is left wing influencers like Parkrose Permaculture who has decided to say extremely alienating things and collectively lump all white women, boomers, Gen J’s and Gen X’s in the same toilet bowl of scorn, prejudication, and mockery.
I unsubscribed from Parkrose Permaculture because she was not following the strategy to “make allies; don’t proliferate enemies”.
Today, she’s trying to walk it back in a “c’mon, guys, you’re being too sensitive 🙄” manner that narcissistic assholes always roll out when their targets call them out. Followed by “suck it up, buttercup”. Charming. And hilarious. I saw this coming a few months ago.
Here’s the thing about Parkrose: it’s very clear that she’s working with Indivisible because she’s always bringing it up and she’s got those “teachable moment” talking points that sound like only she and other influencers know what racism, privilege, poverty, or sexism are. Oh, you silly white women who have spent your whole lives experiencing or protesting those things, you haven’t prostrated yourselves before us enough yet. Let me talk to you like I’m the kindergarten teacher showing you how to share.
Now I have to wonder if this attitude is dominant in Indivisible. If they’re not insufferable or unaware of the damage this is doing then they need pay more attention and make influencers like Parkrose apologize and clarify their stance immediately for two reasons:
First, if Indivisible younger generations are adopting this attitude or it is spreading into the general public and indivisible is doing nothing to address it, then they’re undermining their purpose and doing the GOP’s work for them. They also can’t count. While I expect that of MAGA who just don’t care about statistics, I expect Democratic or anti-authoritarian organizations to be better informed. White women for Kamala, Biden and Hillary have consistently edged out white women who voted for Trump. There’s a greater than 50% chance that any random white woman you run into on a daily basis is already on your side. So there is no reason why you need to single them out for disrespect or dismiss them no matter what age you think they are.
I can almost hear them now, “Oh we don’t mean all white women. We’re talking to the white women that voted for Trump.” Sure, sure, like they frequent a white woman former crunchy homeschooling mom in Oregon and subscribe to her YouTube channel. I mean, talk about gender traitors {{rolling eyes}}. She and other “down with white women” influencers do not seem to recognize a difference.
Second, there’s a No Kings event coming up and do you know who always turns up to those events in big numbers?
BOOMERS
It’s probably ingrained in them to protest injustice based on their experiences in the 60’s and 70’s. A lot of Gen J’s and Gen X’s were still in school when that happened but they’re getting smooshed in the same bin as the Boomers that always get the worst insults from people like Parkrose Permaculture who’s clearly getting high on her own supply and sense of superior self-importance. There’s a sense of resentment there that doesn’t make any sense if she has been to protests in the last 10 years.
But ok, if Indivisible and their regional mouthpieces can’t rein this in and if I’m a white woman anti Trump voter or if I’m a Boomer of either sex, I might just skip the next No Kings event. Yeah, just do yard work or stop training to outrun an ICE agent.
Indivisible needs to get them to zip it or give them sensitivity training. Or does Indivisible mean something different to you? You can’t afford to piss off this many people. It is starting to go beyond your braindead Parkrose-esque affiliates.
If Indivisible influencers hadn’t come up with these divisive talking points the right wing would have had to have invent them.
Life is already hard enough for boomer retirees, not all of whom are going to be sitting on a pile of cash. It’s even worse for the generations that came after who may never be able to retire. They do not need this sh*t from their own side. And every march or rally or ICE protest is one more opportunity for them to get scanned biometrically for future retaliation.
If they already turn out for you in numbers you seem determined to ignore, stop targeting them with multiple text messages, pleas for money, and proliferating YouTube posts. You can’t say, “hey, come put your life on the line for democracy and later we’ll insult you, lecture you like children about the implicit bias that we know is lurking in your heart, and scold you that you aren’t pulling your weight!”
Boomers and white women of any age are not solely responsible for Trump’s second term any more than a lot of Gen Z sat out the last election because of Palestine, or Hispanic voters went to Republicans because of patriarchal family values, or black voters flirted with evil for god knows what reason or younger men think somehow they’re going to benefit from pushing their female colleagues around at work.
Why single out the demographics you can least afford to lose? Do you think they have no self respect? I mean, they can just sit out the protests and marches, let the public demonstrations look like they’re losing support and steam, and wait until November to vote.
Is that what you want Indivisible and all you lurkers? That messages and calls for action don’t reach the widest possible audience? Think about it.
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