• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I think this might be an American Civic Religion thing where America is so monolithic, and so grounded at the center of their reality, that they can’t imagine a world where America doesn’t exist or even a world where America can meaningfully change. America is the core of the natural order so trying to fight it is like trying to fight the ocean. They can only conceptualize resistance and rebellion as a russian plot, never an organic political action.

    We are dealing with fanatics blind to the world as it exists.

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      I think this might be an American Civic Religion thing where America is so monolithic, and so grounded at the center of their reality, that they can’t imagine a world where America doesn’t exist or even a world where America can meaningfully change. America is the core of the natural order so trying to fight it is like trying to fight the ocean.

      Burger leaders when someone asks if a different state of affairs is possible: “Does the sun rise in the west?”