Should We Get Inside MAGA's Head?

I've been thinking about those who are jumping ship now and leaving MAGA – or soon to be jumping ship and leaving MAGA.  Should we get inside their heads to understand their motivation? Give them a checklist of questions so they might do some soul searching or shadow work?  Or are we just going to be happy their ship is sinking and the cracks are now fissures? 

There needs to be a pathway back, a road to redemption, a way to unity but I'd sure feel better if I thought they might do some inner work. Examine their moral landscape. Imagine they're standing at the crossroads with Hekate holding up her lantern. She issues the questions. Maybe it goes something like this --

Do you ever ask yourself --

1)  I wonder if I was taught the wrong things? 

2)  Am I open to new ideas?

3) Would I want the opportunity to rethink and unlearn some beliefs?

4)  Am I holding on to values that hurt other people?  If yes, should I rethink them?

5)  Am I open enough to new ideas to let my thinking evolve toward unity and inclusion rather than separation and cruelty?

Then maybe go a bit deeper -

6)  Do I still think choosing division, separation and cruelty is loving my neighbor? Or has everything I've believed been about loving myself?

7)  Was I taught ideas that no longer truly serve me?  Or the collective? Can I let them go?

8)  Can doing the right thing be my own reward?

9) Have I embraced values that don’t perpetuate love and unity and asked myself why I’ve done so? 

10)  Do I still believe whatever was at the root of those unloving beliefs?

11)  Can I give those ideas up?

If they don’t ask themselves those questions maybe they’re just jumping ship from MAGA because groceries are too damn high.  They’re not having a crisis of faith or a moral clarity moment. They aren’t re-thinking their racism or sexism, homophobia or whatever else was motivating them.  They’re just finally being affected. And their old supremacist and selfish ways are going to return once eggs cost less. This will be a temporary reprieve.

Which brings me to the idea of being complicit by omission. 

All these people who cannot bring themselves to name right from wrong and who is guilty are complicit by their omission - by their silence.  They are like the guy who watches a woman being raped and looks the other way.  Or the people who knew about the Epstein sex trafficking and did nothing.  They’re like the person who sees someone’s house being robbed and doesn’t call 911.  Or the guy who hears the other guys talking trash about women and then just calls it locker room talk. It’s the Press who heard that woman called Piggy and stood there stone cold silent!  Or the family who knows the neighbor next door is abusing his wife and kids and does absolutely nothing.  Maybe it's the person trying to sell you their services or products so they stand for nothing.

These cowardly and selfish acts, their silence, makes them complicit by omission.  You’ve heard of lies of omission, well this silence, this watching out for oneself out of fear, personal gain or possible discomfort makes these people complicit and these unspoken words or this passivity and inaction are lies of omission too.  Just another way to name apathy or spiritual bypassing, but maybe this makes it easier to understand.  And if you’re doing that or know people doing that – keeping quiet for peace or personal benefit, to have a friend or be included, to sell something - that’s still being complicit.  Not being aware, not using one’s voice as others are suffering or subjected to injustice and cruelty, is not practicing love and unity no matter how many times one quotes flowery mantras or professes to be about love and light.

And in the end, you’re still going to get what you are – not what you pretend or imagine yourself to be.