Thread by @SlavaMalamud

Has the American public always been this goddamn insane?
Now, look, I grew up in the dying USSR, so I know public insanity. I remember the late 1980s, when the Soviets decriminalized religion, and as a result, all citizens suddenly started believing EVERYTHING. At the same time..

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1457886144784310272

For a while, psychics became all the rage. Newspapers (fucking Communist newspapers, with names like "Dniester Pravda" and "Odessa Komsomol") printed horoscopes and magic spells from "forest sorcerers of Perm" or something.
Psychic healers were nationwide celebrities...

One dude claimed to be able to "charge" water through the TV screen. So, every week, millions of Soviet idiots put out big cans, bottles, tubes and vats in front of their TVs, while the con man waved his hands on the screen. The water was supposed to cure all illnesses...

Then, he got a competitor, who claimed the water charging guy was a fraud (a bold claim), but he could cure everything by simply staring through the screen. So, now, at a different day each week, the same exact people would state into his televised eyes for 30 minutes.

Then, the next day, they'd tune in to get more water charged by the hand-waving dude. Then, they'd visit a local healer to prescribe them some remedy consisting of rat poop. Then, they'd go to church. Then, to a party meeting.
I know what happens when a society loses its mind.

But I never thought America would ever be this bad.