Time To Fight For The MAGA Hat!

There is a growing effort to demonize anyone wearing a hat with the capital letters MAGA.

President Trump ran on a platform to make America great. His campaign slogan was Make America Great Again or MAGA. This slogan became a symbol that his administration wanted to change the country’s direction and return power to the people.

There is a growing wave of uncontested absurdities which have become accepted slogans since Donald J. Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States of America.

Uncontested Absurdities

What is an “uncontested absurdity?” Ayn Rand wrote:

“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other – until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country’s official ideology.”

A long held uncontested absurdity is the slogan that America is still a racist nation.

MAGA Hat and Racism

The newly accepted uncontested absurdity is that anyone wearing a red Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat is by definition a racist. Actress Alyssa Milano posted this on Twitter.

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Any effort to show support for the idea of making America great is evil because racism is evil and the MAGA hat is now the “new white hood.”

Before and since her tweet has there have been a growing number of attacks on people wearing a MAGA hat. Clearly there is a “dint” of constant pressure to prevent anyone from wearing a MAGA hat, anywhere at anytime. Here are a few examples:

Perhaps the most disturbing attack came against students from Covington Catholic High School on January 19, 2019. This attack was carried out by Black Hebrew Israelites, which made national news. This incident resulted in lawsuits filed on behalf of Nick Sandmann (who was wearing a MAGA hat) against the perpetrators including the media for falsely reporting on the events which took place in violation of journalistic standards.

This mob mentality to demonize the MAGA hat has even lead to what now appears to be a hoax hate crime perpetrated by singer Jussie Smollett.  Elizabeth Zwirz from Fox News reports:

Authorities in Chicago on Wednesday approved felony criminal charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, hours after he was “officially classified as a suspect in a criminal investigation” for allegedly “filing a false police report” in connection with his Jan. 29 attack claims, police said.

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The Daily Signal has documented 19 hoax hate crimes perpetrated since the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump.

American Greatness

Ayn Rand in “Textbook of Americanism” explains, in the simplest terms possible, what made America unique and great. She opens with an explanation of two starkly contrasting ideas.

What Is the Basic Issue in the World Today?

The basic issue in the world today is between two principles: Individualism and Collectivism. Individualism holds that man has inalienable rights which cannot be taken away from him by any other man, nor by any number, group or collective of other men. Therefore, each man exists by his own right and for his own sake, not for the sake of the group.

Collectivism holds that man has no rights; that his work, his body and his personality belong to the group; that the group can do with him as it pleases, in any manner it pleases, for the sake of whatever it decides to be its own welfare. Therefore, each man exists only by the permission of the group and for the sake of the group.

These two principles are the roots of two opposite social systems. The basic issue of the world today is between these two systems.

Socialism versus Freedom

President Trump during his “Choose Greatness” State of the Union address to congress said:

Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country.  America was founded on liberty and independence –- not government coercion, domination, and control.  We are born free, and we will stay free.  Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.

Voltaire said, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

We are now seeing atrocities committed in the name of an absurdity that the MAGA hat is the “new white hood.”

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