MAGA vs. Everyone Else
- Dr. Jessie Virga
- 4 hours ago
- 5 min read
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We have become a nation of assumptions. Not assumptions about policy or governance, but assumptions about people. Before someone opens their mouth, before they articulate a single thought, we have already decided who they are.
The white man in a MAGA hat is labeled intolerant. The Black man in that same hat is called a traitor. The woman with a septum piercing is presumed "unhinged liberal." The androgynous man with blue hair is written off as progressive. The heavily tattooed man is assumed criminal. We reduce human beings to visual cues and political shorthand, then treat them according to conclusions we manufactured in seconds.
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
This instinct is not new. It is ancient. Some of the darkest periods in human history were born from the same cognitive shortcut. Entire populations were judged inferior based on skin color, religion, language, or geography. Colonization was justified by assuming foreigners were lesser. Enslavement was rationalized by assigning intellectual deficiency to a race. The logic was simple and devastating. They are different. Therefore they are inferior.
