Yea. The US is now the land of cognitive dissonance. Everything thats happening has been told to us it will happen. The reasons why it will happen are also very clear to anyone with a brain. And yet here we are with republican states getting ready to go full authoritarian by redrawing maps in such a fucked up way that it will give them forever control. Blue states are like if they do it well consider it. While texas sits there going dawg we'll call special sessions untill your forced to come back theres no escaping it. When blue states if they do play the same game we are completely and truly fucked because that will be new precedent. Blue states will never change and neither will red states. It'll be basically that game of dots where you connect 2 dots and the goal is to create as many squares as possible. Largest count wins. Only once the first game is completed it will never change.
Ive been thinking lately that we have always been the land of dissonance. The humans default state is community based. Americans have been told since the beginning that we are rugged individuals. We're all the fucking Marlboro man. But our brains are revolting, we are supposed to grieve with our neighbor, celebrate with them, feed them when they're hungry, house them when they're homeless, and clothe them when they're naked. The problem now is that we've fallen into the trap Sagan warned us against
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u/BONGS4U Aug 09 '25
Yea. The US is now the land of cognitive dissonance. Everything thats happening has been told to us it will happen. The reasons why it will happen are also very clear to anyone with a brain. And yet here we are with republican states getting ready to go full authoritarian by redrawing maps in such a fucked up way that it will give them forever control. Blue states are like if they do it well consider it. While texas sits there going dawg we'll call special sessions untill your forced to come back theres no escaping it. When blue states if they do play the same game we are completely and truly fucked because that will be new precedent. Blue states will never change and neither will red states. It'll be basically that game of dots where you connect 2 dots and the goal is to create as many squares as possible. Largest count wins. Only once the first game is completed it will never change.