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C_U_L8R

(47,661 posts)
2. They cannot accept their own failings
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 11:21 AM
Jul 8

and will take it out on anybody but themselves.
If they have an opportunity to punch down, they will.
Insecure, abusive and ignorant.

no_hypocrisy

(52,253 posts)
3. My theory is that most of them are narcissists like TSF.
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 11:32 AM
Jul 8

First, they identify with him. He's like them. He "gets" them.

Second, they have gross insecurity and jealousy issues. They see non-MAGAs with college and more getting ahead. The non-MAGAs make more money. The non-MAGAs have bigger houses. The non-MAGAs can afford attorneys. They believe the non-MAGAs think they're superior to them. The non-MAGAs seem to have more fun than they do.

Class Warfare. For the most part, MAGAs are lower-middle class and can't move up no matter what they do. Non-MAGAs ARE upper-middle class. And won't associate with them. Ignore them. Have a certain arrogance against MAGAs.

They have been primed to hate for decades. Remember Newt Gingrich and his Contract for America? It was meant to create a schism in Congress where bipartisanship would be obsolete. Two camps with animosity. Therefore, if you aren't a MAGA, you are to be viewed with suspicion, anger, hatred. Like a football game. You can't root for both teams. And you root for your team and despise the other team.

SWBTATTReg

(25,477 posts)
4. These same people mocked us that stuck in out in College, got the degrees in order to code, program, etc.,
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 01:52 PM
Jul 8

to make it in life, in short, continued w/ our Schooling after graduating from high school, going to trade schools, going to a either 2-year or 4-year college degree program, and then into what usually turned into our life long careers.

All of those that stayed behind? I view them as the generation stuck still in their high school days, forever stuck in the highlight of their lives in High School. They never learn more, can't tell them anything, sort of like the bridezillas and groomzillas that you see getting married, many of them for roughly a year, give or take. Most of them still living off their Mom and Dad's handouts, and live at home or in the basement still since they still can't land or keep a decent job, and those that are available, the jobs are too 'beneath' them to take.

Only when Mom and Dad finally, finally lower the boom, then things change. Kids are finally kicked out when they can't even contribute to Mom and Dad's monthly budget/grocery bills, etc. It's really a shame, being that perhaps Mom and Dad pampered their kids a little too much, perhaps. At least most of us in the 'normal' world readily ID such people, they're usually the ones whining about everything, that they should have had a top tier job w/o working for it like the rest of us do.

I don't begrudge our success. We earned it the good ol' fashion way. They wanted a short cut, which, in most of our world, doesn't really happen very often. Slow and steady as she goes is how success is made.

Have a good day!

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