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Congratulations America, in our glorification of hyper individualistic selfishness, we made fascism, a system built on oppression and scapegoating, less scary to the ignorant general public than scawy sociawism. Because social cooperation ensuring everyone's basic needs are being met at the expense of a small subset of people getting to live like modern pharaohs is the devil, after all. People we consider lazy deserve to die for the bad decisions they must have made, amirite my fellow Americans?
Maybe if we hadn't made our core value greed, and our mandated core drive in life competing against one another to get moooooore than our neighbors, there wouldn't be nearly so many ignorant people eager to have the state oppress groups of people that don't (yet) look like them and kneecap the competition.
This is live together or die alone in practice. We chose the second one. But hey, look at all the different variations on the chicken sandwich we got for our Faustian Bargain! This place's has pickles! This other place's has a zesty sauce! It was worth all the cruelty for the freedom of capitalism!
And before some sad true believer tells me "the free market has nothing to do with the rise of Trump and the fascist right herp derp" I would defer you to Donald Trump's entire lifelong brand that elevated him to power. What was his idiotic gameshow about again?
I blame cars, even if they a symptom, they are definitely a catalyst to the isolation and lack of apathy
While I don’t believe cars are the reason, as Mitch Hedberg puts it, they are the Carmex adding the nice shiny highlight to the underlying fever blister.