Can we acknowledge that there is a segment of the population that is cut off from reality by design? I can't assign responsibility for this to anyone but the right-wing mediasphere as a whole.
I was gonna say. This is nothing new. Americans have been deep into nonsense conspiracy theories from the very beginning. Now it’s just streaming 24/7 in our hands.
This pandemic kicked out the incredibly fragile legs holding up our society. At a certain point, throwing endless trillions at the problem may end up making it even worse without serious, federal reform.