No. Not human beings. MAGAts.
See, a human being has morals and compassion and values and critical thinking. Or at least one of those things.
Perhaps the MAGAt had humanity once upon a time but that has been lost much like the humanity of a zombie once bitten. 🤷♀️
There is no humanity left to a creature so doped up on fascist propaganda that every single policy decision they support is filtered through a lens of figuring out what group it can hurt.
So yes! Treating them the way I do is a point of pride! Because it's the exact way that they treat others. And they are allowed to get away with it because we are too soft in our responses.
Trump calls immigrants animals on live television, and his people proudly support it. They have raised nearly a million dollars for a woman who called and autistic child the n-word. They love making marginalized communities feel less than human. They love hurting other people. Traumatizing other people! So why shouldn't we return the favor? Why shouldn't we make sure that they hurt the way they enjoy hurting others?
Maybe they will learn a valuable life lesson. Probably not. But I frankly don't care.
We keep trying to play nice. We keep trying to be the better people. We've been trying since the Civil War Reconstruction where all of the traitors were set free with barely any consequences for treason and slaughtering American citizens where other people would have been executed.
Here we are and the cancer has returned full force because we didn't actually remove it.
We keep repeating the same patterns over and over again! We keep trying to take the high road! We keep trying to compromise with evil! And it doesn't work! It never works!
Lincoln wasn't even going to abolish slavery! He just wanted to slowly poison it so that hopefully somewhere down the line it might be able to end someday.
And do you know why? Because the North still sympathized with the slave owners! They were still concerned about their "wealth" being taken away. It felt unfair to simply rob these business owners. They cared more about the humanity of the slave owners than the slaves.
This force of evil in America... This cancer... It tries to play on your sympathies. It tries to get you to feel compassion towards it. Because even though they feel no compassion for marginalized communities or all the people they hurt... They know that you do. You have compassion and morals. And this evil will try to exploit that if allowed.
You know... As a system, there have been plenty of times when we have questioned our sanity. Because sometimes it feels... Out there... Sharing a brain and body with others... It feels like maybe it's just delusion... And we find ourselves questioning everything... Luckily we are good at answering questions so we get through it...
But when it comes to this, I think we're the most sane people in the world. Because this spineless insistence that we should continue to treat our enemies with compassion and show them sympathy and treat them like humans when they have proven that they will never show us the same courtesy and will only exploit it as a weakness... That is actual insanity.
And I am not saying that compassion and sympathy are weaknesses themselves. Of course they aren't. Caring is what makes us human. But we need to be selective.
Wasting sympathy and compassion on creatures who will only take advantage of it is going to be the end of us. Taking them in good faith, humanizing them... That's how the enemy will win.