*facepalms*

How did you get that from “Make America great again” means lets go back into the past?

I see you’ve blocked me.  (Either that, or Tumblr is glitching out again, but I doubt it~)

You ignorant fool.  Here you are, going all the way back to the founding of the nation...

Let me remind you all about America:

America was founded on the backs of enslaved and deaths of Africans and the Indigenous Populations by white wealthy men!

Yea, folks. Lets make America great again.

I’m never going to feel bad for any person who is stupid enough to prance around with a quote “Make America Great Again” on them ignoring how America was even made, acting like a victim because you get your kicks by being a racist and sexist fuck!

Remember your U.S. history!

This is exactly the sort of thing you’re talking about.

Since nearly every human on Earth descends from someone who took land from others by force, by your logic, no one is permitted to have any sort of government ever, even black people.

...was justified as a response.  Effectively every people of any relevance on Earth, including the first nations of the native Americans, are stained with the blood of conquest.

Trump’s MAGA slogan isn’t about bringing back slavery, and if you had even an ounce of understanding of his voters or even the right-wing in general, you would have grasped this.

It’s about the Post-War economic boom and the ideal of a household being able to sustain itself as comfortably middle-class in that environment.  This should be fucking obvious as the emotional sentiment behind it.  Building megaprojects, going to the Moon, having overcome a grand struggle against a great evil - that kind of greatness, too.

It isn’t even about the race relations of that time period.

The right-wing and conservative movements are built on rebuilding an imagined golden age.  You think that’s foolish, no doubt, but do you know why they do that?

Because people, even Leftists and Liberals, put a lot of stock in something that has stood the test of time.  It’s an instant credibility bonus, and if I were a politician, I, too, would seek to present my ideology as rooted in the past and connecting it to the future.  (At times, their attempts to rebuild what they imagined the past to be have been tangible improvements that the past didn’t even have.)

One can argue, I think quite effectively, that Trump cannot deliver this.  That without the factories of every other place of industrial relevance on Earth being flattened by global war, it just isn’t feasible.  One can even argue that his policies make the situation worse on this axis.

That isn’t the point.

If you had a modicum of sense on this matter, then you could better figure out how to outmanuever the Great Orange Demagogue and sway the Trump voters you so excitedly dismiss.  I’ll give you two hints: 

Housing prices matter.  A lot.

- working with Kiddos 

- What Am I, Chopped Liver?? 

- tfw your potted plants are really really waxy!

- the inexplicable urge to emphasize the number of minutes an activity is going to take. it’s going to take FIVE minutes. FIVE. 5️⃣ 5️⃣ 5️⃣

- sneakily tricking people into talking about the parks budget meeting their goals to say specific things people have decided they should say by pretending to forget that food doesn’t go on your head  

- paperwork  

- having a whole degree in saying “that hurts my feelings!” and “that makes me happy!” in the least and most reinforcing possible ways

- having to pick your Therapeutic Non Sequitur that you will say whenever someone disagrees with you is as difficult and emotionally laden as naming a baby

- the delight of finding a new creative way to turn a snack or conversation about the weather into a way to test and probe for someone’s deficits 

- when you finally get to participate in the annual Xtreme Praise Improv Show but you’ve been hypnotized to take off all your clothes whenever you hear or say the word “rock star” 

- having to sleep mummified in Self Esteem Posters or you just can’t get your full night’s rest 

- when you know you’re a good therapist because you have a giant trampoline water park cover in glitter that your clients can access if you deem it medically necessary