Really cool how the US managed to delete the fact that we spent the entire early part of the crisis with capitalist using the feds to literally steal protective equipment from the states to resell. Also really cool how we no longer talk about how the electoral system resulted in the government aiding or crippling the virus response based on how those states voted.
I feel like there's an element of it that's basically this big mental logjam where the US both has a lot of black men as the symbol of its masculinity and white women of its femininity, but they are at the same time not allowed to be let out of specific places on the hierarchy.
Like I think even if the US was socialist this would still be the case and is a long term result of having huge amounts of violent repression on that specific type of relationship combined with the massive cultural shift afterwards. It's this deep scar in the Ameribrain that gives people boners when they tickle it.