Opus 2025-120: MAGA Shelf Life

Right now, when you use the acronym, MAGA people know what you’re talking about.  It carries a certain body of principles and priorities.  It has been embraced by the American people.  Obviously, everyone doesn’t like it but the grass roots, the ordinary people who work for a living tend to like the idea of making America great again.  They tend to love their country, and even if they don’t I understand all the principles behind it, or even know what’s in the first amendment, they have a gut level understanding of what liberty is and how it works.

MAGA says all of that.

For how long?  One of the problems with labels is that they start off being very descriptive and very useful but in the course of time people who have different agendas begin to adopt them, and it changes the whole meaning.  I noticed that in the videos of the Trump victory.  At one point he had a group singing the song, YMCA.  When I was a kid YMCA stood for Young Men’s Christian Association.  As a kid, I took swimming lessons at the local YMCA.  As a teenager, our church had a basketball team in the YMCA church league.  It used to be a very useful organization with solid values and Christian principles.

Now YMCA has become the theme song of the homosexual movement.  It has lost its meaning.

It used to be that being an evangelical meant some thing.  It meant you believe that the Bible is the word of God.  It meant that you believe that Jesus was God incarnate.  It meant that you believe that you were saved by grace through faith.  It made a lot of things that people understood.  The root of the word was the idea of evangelism, which is based on the idea of the Greek word meaning, good news.

Not so much anymore.  The term evangelical has become pretty much meaningless as a mark of spiritual life.

I expect the same thing will happen to MAGA.  It will be eventually co-opted by people who want anything but to make America great again.  They will use the term for photo ops.  In the process they will eventually pervert the whole thing.  Get ready for it.  Be prepared.  Be aware.  Keep the acronyms feet to the fire.  When it gets diluted and polluted, then it will be time to move on.  It will be time for a new label.

Life is fluid.  The world changes around us.  Let’s keep hustling to keep up.  In a perfect world we would be in the lead, and the people who are America haters and liberty resistors would have to be hustling to catch us.

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