Extreme right wing political cult indoctrination via mass propaganda masquerading as journalism pushed for around 50-60 years that mirrors religious indoctrination. They use similar language, authoritarian hierarchy, preaching instead of questioning discussion, and undermining education to make it inaccessible and underfunded.
There were serious problems before that too with Jim crow laws, slavery, genocide of the indigenous peoples, etc. This is the current US form of that egocentric, unempathetic politic. A fox news demagogue like Jesse Waters talking about gassing vs bombing major US cities is both a dog whistle to racists because pluralism & diversity are strengths of major metropolitan areas, and Christian nationalists who lose power in big diverse communities when people can see for themselves the people they were told are evil demonic scapegoats are just like them.
There is similar extreme political cult behavior everywhere, but they are a minority and the systems of government that haven’t been updated since the filibuster reforms forces constitutional amendments to require a 2/3 majority instead of over 50%, the electoral college and gerrymandering preventing democracy, and higher religiosity in the US allowed this minority of the country to win elections.
Extreme right wing political cult indoctrination via mass propaganda masquerading as journalism pushed for around 50-60 years that mirrors religious indoctrination. They use similar language, authoritarian hierarchy, preaching instead of questioning discussion, and undermining education to make it inaccessible and underfunded.
There were serious problems before that too with Jim crow laws, slavery, genocide of the indigenous peoples, etc. This is the current US form of that egocentric, unempathetic politic. A fox news demagogue like Jesse Waters talking about gassing vs bombing major US cities is both a dog whistle to racists because pluralism & diversity are strengths of major metropolitan areas, and Christian nationalists who lose power in big diverse communities when people can see for themselves the people they were told are evil demonic scapegoats are just like them.
There is similar extreme political cult behavior everywhere, but they are a minority and the systems of government that haven’t been updated since the filibuster reforms forces constitutional amendments to require a 2/3 majority instead of over 50%, the electoral college and gerrymandering preventing democracy, and higher religiosity in the US allowed this minority of the country to win elections.