[bongodongobob]

Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Climate change is a liberal hoax to steal money from you. Jesus is coming soon and will rapture us into heaven. Antifa wants to burn down your city. Gays are destroying family values. Women should be forced to have children if they got pregnant. Taxes are theft. The US should let Russia take Ukraine. The earth is 2000 years old. Weed should be illegal. More guns will solve crime. Elementary schools are radicalizing children telling them they should be gay and teaching them white people are evil.

As long as these beliefs are allowed to be mainstream we are 100% fucked.

[hanche]

Agreed, but: The words “are allowed to be” are doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Who allows these beliefs to be mainstream? Does anybody have the power to not allow it? The thing, is, we cannot get rid of those beliefs by force – and arguably, we should not even if we could – so where does that leave us? Reason does not seem to help. It is hard to avoid a feeling of despair. But we cannot allow ourselves the luxury.

[bongodongobob]

The general public. People that have these beliefs need to be ridiculed and called out. But in the US, that's not polite and you're not supposed to talk about politics. Meanwhile, "both sides" news shows continue to give airtime to lies and nonsense from charlatans. Our entire news and political culture is infested with pure horseshit.