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Stone's avatar

I think there's at least one more layer going on that helps explain the broken brains and current behaviors of the bourgeoisie:

Four years of Trump, and then 'Rona, was so traumatic/terrifying for these folks (Rachel Maddow is my archetype here), it made the entire Liberal caste go into some kind of reptilian-brain regression.

Then in this traumatized (possibly even hypnotic) state, 'Rona gave them all a taste of the dark frisson of demanding things from others. Controlling them. Threatening them. Throwing out all the rules. It was a revelation.

Turns out they friggin' loved this so much they've now decided they can save the whole world by using force, coercion, cheating, propaganda, whatever it takes.

They've gone over to the Dark Side of the Force if you will.

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William Conklin's avatar

I’m almost 80 years old I was born right after we nuked a couple hundred Japanese to keep them from surrendering to Stalin and we started the Cold War and then we marched around the world stealing shit from the poor countries, we beat up the Sandinistas we murdered millions of Vietnamese we destroyed Iraq we faked twin tower thing. We also faked the moon landing if we could just get Americans to quit believing that we went to the moon maybe they would realize that everything else are rulers do is a scam it’s obvious even to Putin, Biden is not running the country , in the history of the world it’s hard to imagine a country more successfully evil than the United States of America but unfortunately, the average person has no idea what is going on. Hopefully some of them will read your essays and think a little bit.

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