re: #236 Interesting Times

Why Americans Get Conned Again and Again

I think there’s a lot of truth to this. Canadians aren’t immune to cons, for example, but because our national character tends to be a bit more circumspect and cautious compared to the US, we’re less vulnerable to bombastic feel-good dumbfuckery.

And yet, we’re currently going through a phase where the biggest group influenced by conmen are the people who don’t like our current progress.