Imagine a seventh rate political satire that's ridiculous and not plausible at all. That could be the US in ~6 months or so.
Once the crazies crash the economy they can scream stuff like...
The Jews destroyed the economy!
Satan and the demoncrats helped the Jews!
We have to end Social Security and the other entitlement programs to save our country!
The devil is here and we must become a Christian nation immediately!
If their messaging is right - a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe them. It's insane but it's where we are as a nation. They are post-sanity and post-reason. All they have is their rage and their conspiracy theories.
Once the crazies crash the economy they can scream stuff like…
They already say this shit. They've been saying it since Reagan. Some of it since Eisenhower (dismantling New Deal programs has been pretty big on Republicans' radar since the 50s).
I guess the difference between then and now (the Cool Zone(TM)) is that the ones just trying to rile up the base are all dead or retired, and we're left with the true believers that were created in their wake.
Imagine a seventh rate political satire that's ridiculous and not plausible at all. That could be the US in ~6 months or so.
Once the crazies crash the economy they can scream stuff like...
The Jews destroyed the economy!
Satan and the demoncrats helped the Jews!
We have to end Social Security and the other entitlement programs to save our country!
The devil is here and we must become a Christian nation immediately!
If their messaging is right - a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe them. It's insane but it's where we are as a nation. They are post-sanity and post-reason. All they have is their rage and their conspiracy theories.
They already say this shit. They've been saying it since Reagan. Some of it since Eisenhower (dismantling New Deal programs has been pretty big on Republicans' radar since the 50s).
I guess the difference between then and now (the Cool Zone(TM)) is that the ones just trying to rile up the base are all dead or retired, and we're left with the true believers that were created in their wake.
The children of the suckers who fell for the red scare bs.
ah well then. yeehaw :deng-cowboy:
Feels like that should be illegal
In any sane country YES it would be, this is not that country though.