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Why are we still looking for excuses? They wanted the burger not the salad [1]

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Date: 2025-05-30

Seriously people you have got to stop telling us, that if we had put ranch dressing on our salad or added olives, the people that ordered the bloody rare hamburger meat would have accepted the salad. When the only thing they would have done is taken the lettuce and tomato and put it on their burger. They wanted their bloody burger, they ordered their bloody burger, they paid for their bloody burger and are now eating their bloody burger. Maybe if there is such a thing as cosmic justice, they will get a case of the runs bad enough to cure them of their love for the bloody burger.

They are walking around with ; nazis – confederate – swastika flags, Waving huge “mass deportation” signs , saying this is “trump country now”, calling ICE on people, sending plantation messages to Black folks, Etc… etc… etc… and you… you are here saying… maybe if we didn’t say oligarchy they’d chose the our side? You know, I’m starting to think that if anyone is in a close echo chamber it’s this side of the aisle because there are

Maga or most trump voters are openly being racists and bigots and sexists… but we are still here trying to find excuses as to why we lost the elections as if that were some big secret.

These are the different types of 47 voters I see:

Racists; too many black and brown people in positions of power, put them back in their places – Sexists/macho men which is how they got latinos and young men – Xenophobic who want a white America – Religious zealots; god created adam and eve type. And Passive voters : those who in one way or the other agree with some of the right’s stances but won’t be open about their shame so they stayed home and didn’t vote.

Who are we trying to “get votes from” here? We refuse to admit, that yes our friends, colleagues, family who voted for trump are racists, sexist and bigots, they might not be as overt as the hat wearing kind and might still feel some shame but they are the same.

We keep talking about messaging, language, this or that… we keep trying to find excuses for ever demographic under the sun who didn’t vote democrat instead of facing the stark truth. We don’t want to admit the truth. We are scared to admit that a lot of us didn’t realize just how many of our countrymen and women wanted an authoritarian country.

So we sit here trying to figure out what we should change about ourselves in order to fix this “messaging” problem we got. We keep saying well if it was a Caesar salad, or had ranch not Italian dressing, or had this or that… it would still be a freaking salad and they didn’t want a salad. End of story. The messaging was not the problem. The words weren’t the problem. Hell, the money wasn’t the problem. The problem was and is, they wanted a burger not a salad.

I know what you’re gonna say… what about the people who didn’t vote! You really think the people who didn’t vote didn’t “get the message?”… They got it loud and clear, and while they might not be as racists as a red hat, they too decided there were just too much diversity now a days and it was time they saw more white faces leading the way once more. Because most Americans want a country led by white people. Most Americans want that when the United States is talked about the image representing the US should feature a white person.

Next you’ll tell me about surveys that say people said they voted or didn’t vote because the economy, because working class, because young men… people lie in surveys, especially as most will never tell you well I voted because I was tired of seeing so many Black folks, Brown folks, Trans folks, Gay folks in our congress!

Stop looking for excuses for why we lost. It’s time to face the truth. As a country that has systematically refused to face and deal with its past, we are now reaping the fruits of that attitude.

Right now we are still lucky that the bumbling fool is going beyond the expectations of his voters and that might turn them against him as they become victims themselves. However if we as a country do not have a come to jesus moment in regards to the past and in regards to how we treat “others”… in 4-10 years, well have another maybe smarter authoritarian and we’ll be done for.

I’m gonna repeat myself again and again.

We can change our speech pattern

We can change our words

We can change our messaging

We can change anything under the sun except what we stand for and none of the 47 voters would have voted for us, none of those who stood by and let it happen would have voted for us.

how do I know?

Because they heard plain and clear, they understood 100% what the other side was offering and they CHOSE it.

That is what most people refuse to accept. They CHOSE IT. Eyes wide open, with full understanding that it would be an authoritarian choice that it would mean deportations that they would go after DEI that they would do x y and z.

You’re trying to say well if we had put ketchup on our salad they would have chose that instead of the burger! No. They wanted the burger! The only way they are going to change is if they get indigestion from the rotten burger.

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