This is from this Sundance article
If 20 years ago someone said that:
An objectionable TV personality became our greatest president.
That the previous admin would release a pandemic w/ the CCP to destroy him.
That it fostered a socialist cultural revolution.
The country would be trillions in debt.
The elections would be rigged.
That Washington would be effectively one party.
That our border would be invaded by hordes of Barbarians
That our police would be neutered.
That people who’ve never been slaves demand restitution from people who’ve never been slave owners.
That our media would be complicit vs. investigative.
That basic social constructs such as gender would be abandoned.
That a one-world government was the objective.
That in spite of what people experience every day they can be made to believe that the weather is killing them.
That in spite of all this, people go about their lives as if nothing is wrong.
That in spite of this, I’m living the best days of my life and I’ve never been happier.
All the above is true. None of it would I have believed 20 short years ago.
People I hung with said about 30%-40% of that stuff back then, even prior to. Not that it matters, though. We all still voted red or blue because we were trained to. False choice. Now [they] just rig it completely or [they] hang. Game Theory will decide how the narrative process goes, but the end result is not in question.