re: #25 Interesting Times

I’m still trying to figure out why not just Arizona, but all of rural (white) America seems to have developed a case of bad-faith, trolling nihilism and oppositional-defiant disorder. Is it really just fear of America becoming majority PoC, or something else?

It’s the culmination of decades of fear-mongering. The right wing fear machine has been slowly increasing the amplitude over the years; every time a new Democratic administration comes to power, they kick it up a notch, then ride that wave to power and use it to do everything they can to prevent another Democratic administration. When their efforts eventually fall short, they turn it up again, and so on and so forth. It helps that their parallel effort to inspire casual racism in their followers has allowed them to increase their rhetoric to match the increase in volume.