IMO the reason these white American reactionaries have these brainworms is, up until about a decade or two ago, they had themselves an entire society that catered to them and their beliefs, desires, etc. A number of factors have caused them to lose their perceived grip on power, but personally I think it all came to a head when gay marriage was legalized in 2013. The way society seemed to shift from that... I think that was the moment the religious reactionaries truly lost the culture war. Pretty much everything they've done since then has just been their impotent ways of trying to reassert power. Trump made them feel like they had the power back, but now that he's gone the brainworms are really coming out.
So personally, I think the brainworms are going to start manifesting in terms of reactionaries trying to assert power over the most vulnerable. I'm seeing small groups of wannabe tough guys in tacticool gear trying to do "citizens arrests" on undocumented persons, the homeless, or anyone they think is breaking or about to break the law. And the pigs will more or less let them get away with it.
The biggest delusion that Chuds have is the idea of "internal locus of control" and "personal responsibility". They think that they have absolute control over their lives, and that when they say something, people have to listen and reaction the way they want (this is really common with Boomers in general tbf, they think that saying something obligates other people to listen and to respond in a specific way, or they throw a tantrum). You see this a lot with bitter online incel types too - they think the world is a video game where you just have to do the Thing, and you get what you want (because of course poor people are just stupid and didn't do the right thing!)
When they're confronted with something like Covid that directly contradicts this idea, they can't handle it.
this is, incidentally, why they suck so hard at being religious and just use it to pretend everything is fine/hate on others. Christianity emphasizes a lot how you are just suppose to throw yourself on God's mercy, because you don't really have any power in the universe anyway. There's the humanist perspective on human's achievements and all, but most chuds aren't that philosophical.
IMO the reason these white American reactionaries have these brainworms is, up until about a decade or two ago, they had themselves an entire society that catered to them and their beliefs, desires, etc. A number of factors have caused them to lose their perceived grip on power, but personally I think it all came to a head when gay marriage was legalized in 2013. The way society seemed to shift from that... I think that was the moment the religious reactionaries truly lost the culture war. Pretty much everything they've done since then has just been their impotent ways of trying to reassert power. Trump made them feel like they had the power back, but now that he's gone the brainworms are really coming out.
So personally, I think the brainworms are going to start manifesting in terms of reactionaries trying to assert power over the most vulnerable. I'm seeing small groups of wannabe tough guys in tacticool gear trying to do "citizens arrests" on undocumented persons, the homeless, or anyone they think is breaking or about to break the law. And the pigs will more or less let them get away with it.
The biggest delusion that Chuds have is the idea of "internal locus of control" and "personal responsibility". They think that they have absolute control over their lives, and that when they say something, people have to listen and reaction the way they want (this is really common with Boomers in general tbf, they think that saying something obligates other people to listen and to respond in a specific way, or they throw a tantrum). You see this a lot with bitter online incel types too - they think the world is a video game where you just have to do the Thing, and you get what you want (because of course poor people are just stupid and didn't do the right thing!)
When they're confronted with something like Covid that directly contradicts this idea, they can't handle it.
this is, incidentally, why they suck so hard at being religious and just use it to pretend everything is fine/hate on others. Christianity emphasizes a lot how you are just suppose to throw yourself on God's mercy, because you don't really have any power in the universe anyway. There's the humanist perspective on human's achievements and all, but most chuds aren't that philosophical.
That sounds real Papist... God's grace is demonstrated by your wealth on Earth, and if you die, it means He was calling you home.
I'll say it until I'm blue in the face, you don't get capitalism without protestantism.