The scariest thing about this sort of descent into madness through joining a cult, is that I wonder what keeps this from happening to me? Would I recognize the signs in myself and just know, “Whoa there, maybe this isn’t such a hot idea, this is obviously crazy talk.” Is it a slow decline where you sort of make small concessions and give up on reality bit by bit, until you turn around one day and you’ve just lost touch completely (or in your mind everyone else is taking crazy pills)?
I feel like we’ve been watching the GOP start to slip away from at least “acceptable” political discourse for awhile now, they’ve just been slowly but surely pushing the bounds of insanity little by little each year, until we’ve ended up with whatever the fuck the GOP is now, like this weird parody of its former self. Not that the Democrats are that much better, but for the most part they’re still active participants in trying to maintain a shared reality.
There’s obviously people on the fringe on either wing of the mainstream American political spectrum, but the lunatics have basically taken over the asylum in the GOP and their current “fringe” is just sensible, independent conservatives who I’m sure must exist somewhere, people relatively untouched by Trump’s cult of personality. Decades of FoxNews though I’m sure have whittled that number down to near-extinction.
The scariest thing about this sort of descent into madness through joining a cult, is that I wonder what keeps this from happening to me? Would I recognize the signs in myself and just know, “Whoa there, maybe this isn’t such a hot idea, this is obviously crazy talk.” Is it a slow decline where you sort of make small concessions and give up on reality bit by bit, until you turn around one day and you’ve just lost touch completely (or in your mind everyone else is taking crazy pills)?
I feel like we’ve been watching the GOP start to slip away from at least “acceptable” political discourse for awhile now, they’ve just been slowly but surely pushing the bounds of insanity little by little each year, until we’ve ended up with whatever the fuck the GOP is now, like this weird parody of its former self. Not that the Democrats are that much better, but for the most part they’re still active participants in trying to maintain a shared reality.
There’s obviously people on the fringe on either wing of the mainstream American political spectrum, but the lunatics have basically taken over the asylum in the GOP and their current “fringe” is just sensible, independent conservatives who I’m sure must exist somewhere, people relatively untouched by Trump’s cult of personality. Decades of FoxNews though I’m sure have whittled that number down to near-extinction.
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