You know what keeps me up at night: How did so many people become addicted to their own rage and call it patriotism?
Listen up, because we need to talk about the elephant in the room that's been taking a massive shit all over American democracy for the past fucking decade. The MAGA mentality isn't just some quirky political preference you can politely disagree with at Thanksgiving dinner—it's a full-blown psychological clusterfuck that's rotting the brains of millions of Americans from the inside out.
The Nostalgic Delusion: When Rose-Colored Glasses Turn to Blinders
Picture this: It's 1955, and white men with crew cuts are coming home to their suburban castles where dinner's on the table, the kids are scrubbed clean, and nobody talks about systemic racism because, hey, what problems? This is the fever dream that MAGA supporters are chasing—a hallucinogenic trip back to an America that existed for maybe 10% of the population while the other 90% were getting royally fucked over.
The MAGA c…
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