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MTG fumes that Republicans are ‘doing nothing’ to tackle high food prices as shutdown rumbles on
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Yep, we have now reached the point in the clownworld timeline where Marjorie Taylor Green, the Jewish Space Lasers lady who did campaign ads by just shooting a physical representation of 'socialism' with a 50 cal anti materiel rifle... this woman is seemingly a 'moderate Republican', a 'voice of reason' within the party, to use the mainstream political vernacular of roughly 10 years ago.
Go back 10 years, and if you told anyone that anything like this was even possible, much less probable, likely, you would be called insane.
And that's not a hypothetical, because I did, and I was.
What that shows you is how immensely brainwashed and politically illiterate and/or disingenuous almost everyone, on all sides, was, institutional or citizen, political news junkie / official wonk or couldn't care less.
Yay
American Exceptionalism is now well and truly dead.
I mean, it was really never a thing.
List of American achievements that made them a super power:
end list
I mean 'American Exceptionalism' not as being literally true in any sense, I mean it in the actual Political Science / Sociological sense of attempting to differentiate various democracies and their behaviors from each other.
'American Exceptionalism' is ... or was, basically our national ethos, a kind of shared, secular religion, a subtext that was basically always present, referred back to often, but not as often just directly stated.
We did, for quite a long time, just quite arrogantly think we were special, basically magically so, immune from or indifferent to many things that all societies have to grapple with.
So, now our core cultural identity has been revealed to be entirely bullshit, and as a result, basically everyone is having a psychotic break / existential crisis / nihlistic withdrawal ...all the time.
But anyway, yes, I totally agree with you that in the 20th century, it really all does just boil down to not having our own territory being literally blown to oblivion in WW2, and then misinterpreting that obviously leading to roughly one generation of massively abnormal economic gains... as proof that we are just magically amazing, the 'indespensible nation' that was leading the world to the 'end of history', all that bullshit.
EDIT:
As an addendum to that last paragraph...
The Boomers are the worst thing that has ever happened to this country, they lived in the literal best economic boom anywhere in the world, in the entire 20th century, at least if you simplify down to capitalist economies...
... and they think that was all them, and they had it tough actually.
No, they are the luckiest and most spoiled and delusional generation in American history.
And they continuously voted to destroy everything that underpinned their own opulence from possibly carrying forward onto other subsequent generatioms.
Only to be replaced by an even more extreme version of American Superiority Complex.
Closely followed by American Victim Complex.
I think at this point its just American Schizophrenia:
Anytime you go outside, assume anyone or everyone could be schizophrenic, and yeah that's basically America right now.
Followed by American Pyscho
I'm stuck in american clown complex and my arteries are full of tallow
crying
Yes Ronald, I AM LOVING IT!
louder, ugly crying
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