Something it took me a long time to fully appreciate

[ymetca]

25. All that displaced anger

in America's Heartland, aka "flyover country", channeled by Big Oil and Big White Jesus into hating those even worse off than you think you are.

I'm dumbfounded by how many of those insurrectionists were living quite comfortable lives, at least compared to mine anyway.

Punching down like that, on minorities and the multitudes less fortunate than you, evidences some sort of re-triggered childhood trauma, mental or physical abuse, or at least repression of fuller self-actualization, exploited by flat-out brainwashing by unscrupulous media manipulation.

The party of so-called "family values" is the epitome of family dysfunction. All that hatred and self-loathing is bubbling up from somewhere.

We all know "it's the system that done that to you", and replacing players in that corrupt system with "virtue signaling tokens" of pretend diversity is not solving the problem.