Remember at the end of summer 2022 when the liberal-media complex re-convinced itself that the authorities would finally arrest Trump? This was on account of the top-secret documents he took to Mar-a-Lago. I especially recall the "Mueller She Wrote" podcast running a victory lap on Twitter. At home for the holidays, I also caught prime-time MSNBC for the first time in forever. They had moved on to 24/7 coverage of Trump's failure to release his 2015-2020 tax returns. I feel like I need a background in anthropology to fully grasp what's happening with the confidence in Trump's arrest. Something is being activated in the liberal brain that approximates a diehard faith, not unlike a teleological belief in the Rapture. How do MSNBC viewers continue to feel satisfied and confident in Trump's arrest despite an endless deferral of the act? It's like Bart losing his mind at Kamp Krusty when he learns his hero isn't there. Rocking back and forth, he tells himself: "Krusty is coming. Krusty is coming. Krusty is coming." Is this not also making liberals insane?
Your religion comparison is apt, but you're naming the wrong godhead. "Liberal Democracy" is what they might call it, and the religion is far older than just Trump and goes back hundreds of years. The average parishioner is your D-ticket voting, working class proletariat. They're invested in the belief this system will work because they, their parents, and their parents before them were indoctrinated to believe it is the only thing keeping the barbarian hoards of Communist Chinese at bay. (Do not underestimate how effective this indoctrination is; it has been kicking the literal shit out of "leftists" in this country since inception.) The priests - your Mueller She Wrote, Pod Sauve America, etc. are just doing the same thing every fraud does and kicks the can down the road. Biden just got elected. No Christian is asking god for that kind of miracle these days, but his religion is doing fine.
It doesn't matter if Trump gets arrested or not. It doesn't matter if it's clear climate doom is impending. It doesn't matter if a pandemic is ravaging the world. This is literally the only option.
This is how absolute faith works. God is the only salvation. Anyone and anything who challenges that faith is trying to destroy you.
Meanwhile you're stuck here like :jesse-wtf: