One of the most pressing and damning problems is that America is suffering a massive mental health crisis that has metastasized in our politics and culture but people aren’t able or willing to recognize it because the problem is the fake reality this country has been mired in.
Trumpism is a weaponized denial of objective reality, a willful and violent rejection of the unarguable fact that this country has been failed and has failed to the point of societal crisis, and that our own existences have been tied to these lies.
As the American Empire declines, the myths that powered it, exceptionalism and benevolence, evaporate, leaving those in rabid denial to violently defend even as they betray them and slip through their own fingers.
We’re at a moment of reckoning, of necessary reconsideration.
We’re at a moment of reckoning, of necessary reconsideration.
Our choice now is either reconsider the myths that have made America a superpower but have failed us as a society, or to continue with Trump and neo-fascism, gnashing our teeth and lashing out impotently at truths we know are real but refuse to accept.
The choice is either to disabuse ourselves of the myths that have damned us and build something real and true and human or hunker down in angered, self-destructive denial and drag our country and world down in a burst of ugly, dying rage.
But there is no escaping this truth. Trumpism is fascism wrapped in stars and stripes and weaponized nostalgia for a past that never existed. A cult for people looking for answers that explain America’s decline without implicating their leaders, themselves, or this culture.
