The truth everybody keeps dancing around is that America's failure to fight the pandemic or even acknowledge its continued existence is a direct result of Trump and the Right's destruction of reality and the continued problem of white supremacy.
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The pandemic is a perfect case study in how American politics has been rendered obsolete and dysfunctional.
On one side, we have Americans who are trying to determine legislation and response, on the other we have a group lost in a completely altered, manufactured reality.
On one side, we have Americans who are trying to determine legislation and response, on the other we have a group lost in a completely altered, manufactured reality.
Reporting on the coronavirus can't just be reduced to numbers, however, because the numbers...don't really matter.
Americans are divided ideologically on the pandemic. It doesn't matter that infections are skyrocketing. What matters is that millions are lost in delusion.
Americans are divided ideologically on the pandemic. It doesn't matter that infections are skyrocketing. What matters is that millions are lost in delusion.
The alternate reality Trumpists and the Right are drowning in could not have been possible had it not been for the myth of American exceptionalism and the paranoia inherent with white supremacy.
All conspiracy theories originate from that white paranoia, and it's killing us.
All conspiracy theories originate from that white paranoia, and it's killing us.
If there are generations in the future, if we're not all destroyed by crises like climate change that were also obscured by paranoia and political cults, people will read this moment in history and shake their heads.
They'll see a culture lost in lies and dangerous delusions.
They'll see a culture lost in lies and dangerous delusions.
It isn't enough to simply talk about coronavirus.
We have to talk about the existential crisis that is America at this moment.
We have to talk about the Right as a fascistic power movement, its followers lost in white paranoid conspiracy theories.
We have to talk about decline
We have to talk about the existential crisis that is America at this moment.
We have to talk about the Right as a fascistic power movement, its followers lost in white paranoid conspiracy theories.
We have to talk about decline
The madness you feel right now watching the pandemic grow worse as Americans and politicians pretend it isn't happening is justified - you're not crazy.
It's just that part of America has been trapped in an alternate reality teeming with paranoia and self-destruction.
It's just that part of America has been trapped in an alternate reality teeming with paranoia and self-destruction.
The GOP is a fascist movement because they recognize they can't win free and fair elections. Their only pursuit now is maintaining of power at all costs.
Unfortunately, the alternate reality where they can win is also an alternate reality where coronavirus can't be defeated.
Unfortunately, the alternate reality where they can win is also an alternate reality where coronavirus can't be defeated.
This pandemic will continue to ravage until the delusional, white paranoid alternate reality starts to crumble.
We'll lose the people we love and live in danger until this burning fever breaks.
Any discussion about the pandemic has to acknowledge this basic truth.
We'll lose the people we love and live in danger until this burning fever breaks.
Any discussion about the pandemic has to acknowledge this basic truth.
