This has to be the most prescient faux MAGA sales pitch ever

[TxGuitar]

This is from the early 2000s I think; at least, that's when I first encountered it, so pre-MAGA, probably pre TEA Party but if you can debase your mind far enough into a MAGA mindset and read this on face value, this is exactly the Republicans' sales pitch since 2016.

You see, we're old-fashioned. We want to go back to the old days, the days of white people, before women. The days of owning, and building, and having. Having things clean, and big, and smooth, and fast! Return with us now, won't you? To a world where people did whatever they wanted, and minded their own business. A world where everything had a purpose: yours. The world you meant to make, before the Negative People took over. The people who say no, and bad, and stop, and different, and small. The people who are negatives of you, and you know what color that is! The. people who want to start by tearing down, instead of starting like us, by building up! Who are we?

https://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/answers/rants/ad/ad.html

ETA--Many typos at the source!

[GenThePerservering]

1. The Church of the Subgenius

Is a parody religion that has been around since at least the early 80s - I remember its local popularity really well, particularly when Reagen was pres. It's by its nature subversive, but it's ideas are nothing new.

SLACK!

[harumph]

2. It's sarcasm.

[TxGuitar]

3. Yes, it is. That's the point.

"faux sales pitch", I mentioned I first encountered this in the early 2000s. I've actually been aware of the Church since the mid to late 80s when there was a show on KTRU-Rice University Radio 91.7 that broadcasted all sorts of things Dobbs. I'm even ordained in the church.

to put it delicately, NSS.

[Norrrm]

4. "Who are we?"