MAGA and what it means

Make America Great Again

This is not asked in order to jeer, really I wondered exactly what section to post this in.

But I'm asking :- WHEN was America GREAT?

I'd like to know just what those in MAGA hats see as "greatness", what age are we talking about.

(I'm in the UK and often those who voted for Brexit seemed to have some sort of idea of a golden age in the past that was lost, and needed to be regained. The days of Empire! The spirit of the blitz!)

Was it when "men were men"? An age when someone born the very lowest could yet reach the very highest? Do we go back to the Wild West?

I read once a biography of Harry Truman. I was greatly impressed by the man. Maybe others would not agree.

Well, I'm rambling a bit, but my question remains - and I have genuine interest. Not looking for disputes and mud slinging.

Just asking. When exactly was America great, and of what did such greatness consist?

Thanks

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SandWitch · 26-30, F

The term MAGA isn't something that was embraced through a somber remembering by the far-right of American politics, including Donald Trump himself; MAGA is in reference to a period in American history when the fake perception of wealth, prosperity ..and being the best at everything ..and America single-handedly winning WWII was flogged to the uneducated, unwary American public as being their reality, when none of it held any truth.

But truth doesn't sell politics in a wholesale Democratic Republic offering and the illusory place in time and space and near-history that MAGA is referring to, doesn't actually exist in the real world, anymore than the real world exists as Alice in Wonderland saw it as well, after she fell down the rabbit hole.

That book of Alice's adventures should really have been named "Alice in America" because both tales are interchangeable, meaning one in the same.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@SandWitch Please cut the nonsense. There is no far right or far left. There are simply those like you who worship the state and all its meddling in human lives and those who do not worship the state and all its interference. Who in their sane mind could ever support Kackles and the Tampon man knowing that she is a flatterer. She simply tells you what you want to hear not what you need to hear. Given both Kamala and Tim's proclivity for sexual deviancy/power they are the last people you want running your country.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@SandWitch You know.. I never saw that until now. But you have a point..😷

MistyCee

@SandWitch Very nicely written. I especially like the Lewis Carroll analogy.

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Reason10 · 70-79, M

@SandWitch LEGALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT TRUMP was the most CENTRIST president in history. MAGA types are closer to the center than traditional conservatives. Jeb Bush was actually more conservative than LEGALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT TRUMP. Thing is, the DemoNazis are so far to the extremist communist/Nazi left that they make EVERYTHING not Nazi look like right wing.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Reason10 As much as Jeb Bush was singularly unimpressive, he was at least what passes for a Republican in his day. Trump has turned that once proud political brand into a cuss word for anyone with ethics and a respect for the process ..Whatever rises from the Republican ashes will probably either choose a new name or go through some process to exorcise the MAGA ghosts..😷

SandWitch · 26-30, F

@hippyjoe1955

Who in their sane mind could ever support Kackles and the Tampon man knowing that she is a flatterer?

What kind of talk is that, hippyjoe? You've been peddling yourself as a church parishioner for as long as I've been at SW, yet you come on here groveling in the muck like Trump himself, pretending to be a MAGA movement supporter as you yell your Trump-supporting mantra across the border from Canada in hopes that they'll see you as one of their own. They don't hippyjoe, they don't.

You can't have it both ways hippyjoe; you either have to ditch that "church parishioner" candle you've been hiding behind, or you have to get into the mud and stay in there, but you can't have it both ways.

SandWitch · 26-30, F

@NativePortlander1970

Shut up

MistyCee
@SandWitch Very nicely written. I especially like the Lewis Carroll analogy.

whowasthatmaskedman
@SandWitch You know.. I never saw that until now. But you have a point.

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@SandWitch There is NOTHING far right about LEGALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT TRUMP.

He is likely the most CENTRIST president in history.

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN supporters are not far right, but rather the best educated people in this country.

To goose stepping far left NAZIS like you, everything to the right of KKKarl Marx seems far right.

Most of America knows better.

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