re: #13 Dopamine Fish

What’s killing me about them is, the only reason they are doing these things is pride. They refuse to be wrong. They refuse to even admit the possibility that their approach is wrong, that the vaccines work, that COVID is dangerous, that people’s personal liberties mean nothing if they can’t live to enjoy them. They’re just like Trump - they’re not wrong, and even when they are, they aren’t.

It’s actually the result of the interweaving of religion with a political ideology. It creates a dangerous fragility, where if the threads are pulled from one end, the whole fabric - politics and religion - starts to unravel entirely.

That is where their minds are right now; challenging the legitimacy of Trumpism is no different than challenging the very legitimacy of their scripture…and having to confront the harsh truth is nothing short of an existential crisis.