Frankly I think the fact that we surrendered the framing of strength and resilience to the right in the 2010s is a major part of why the Democratic party got itself into the position we are in today.
Voters *hate* weakness more than anything else and they can smell it off of you. If we don't fight for ourselves, why should they think we'll fight for them?
I remember writing that I felt some pity for born Americans who emotively long for the comfort of a nation because it is something they cannot have, but that there ought to be a country for people who don't want a nation and here it is.
Well, I no longer feel as much pity.
Folding Ideas had a great video in 2020 about how QAnon ended up absorbing most of the Flat Earth movement.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfh...
Scots v. Haitians is a rivalry from the 1700s.
TBF Paraguay owes us one after the president stepped in to cut arms sales to Bolivia during the Chaco War.
State bar associations are extremely reluctant to, and utterly paranoid about, disciplining prosecutors in any way.
It's a movie that was made 30 years too late. This would have hit a lot better in the 1990s, when UFO conspiracism was much more popular, much better known, and also much less tainted by being part of the QAnon cinematic universe.
We allowed the cringing tendency to infest us. We could never just say "we're doing this" it's always "we might do this, if three trillion stakeholders approve and following deep listening and learning from administratively affected individuals."
See also why I'm *really* annoyed that Newsom vetoed the CA bill that added caste to protected categories under anti-discrimination laws.
