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Of course 30% Americans are addicted to conspiracy theories. They can organize with others against conspiracy theories. They have comrades against conspiracy theories. But they're helpless against the real world people and forces who've made their lives miserable.
Nobody likes to be helpless,. It's not only ego-destroying, it destroys the personal American myth. So better to be a hero against the Deep State than admit we're on the wrong end of a forty year restructuring of society for the oligarachs, and we fell for it.
A big part of fighting the Class War is admitting what side you're on, and a lot of people just do not want to admit they're on the "losing" side. If you're not, as Steinbeck said, a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, then you failed at the American Dream.
Ironically becoming financially successful, along with LEVERAGE research, was what radicalized me. Because once I was "rich", I met *wealthy* people. I learned, even with what most people would consider a ridiculous income -- you cannot conceive of their lives, their framework.
Sorry, Pence's "only in America" speech set me. Because it's part of the con. If you don't have "only in America" ... what do you have? The worst social security net in the developed world? The health system most likely to bankrupt you? Without exceptionalism ... le deluge.
... man I should not have read Niebuhr in the mood I'm in. Sorry for bumming out a Saturday.
Here, someone was nice enough to make it, I should use it.
