What’s even worse is that dude is 100% convinced that he’s the smartest person in every room and knows the ‘real’ truth.
Imagine walking the earth thinking so little of everyone else around you or that we’ve all been blinded by some global plot… that the most successful century of any country ever in existence was somehow a failure.
This is why we see the kind of abject cruelty and inhumanity in the conservative movement. Everyone else is irredeemable in their eyes.
Why this has taken hold, idk for certain.
I have my theories, though.
1.) the concentration of wealth and the lack of real wage growth
2.) Civil rights for historically marginalized groups like women, African Americans, and the LGBTQ+ABCD 867309 community has taken away the government sanctioned subjugation and made the white majority fearful of losing their wealth, power, or status
3.) The lack of a shared sacrifice for the country at large. The top tier of folks did not face the same kind of pain from the last wars, recessions, pandemic, etc.
4.) the lack of government accountability due to money being speech and the Supreme Court allowing corruption now.