Sorry if the premise is inflammatory, but I’ve been stymied by this for a while. How did we go from something like 1940s era collectivism or 1960s era leftism to the current bizarro political machine that seems to have hypnotized a large portion (if not majority) of the country? I get it - not everything is bad now, and not everything was good then. FDR’s internment camps, etc.
That said - our country seems to be at a low point in intellectualism and accountability. The DHHS head is an antivaxxer, the deputy chief of the DOJ is a far-right podcast nutball, etc. Their supporters seem to have no nuance to their opinion beyond “well, Trump said he’d fix the economy and I don’t like woke.”
Have people always been this unserious and unquestioning, or are we watching the public’s sanity unravel in real time? Or am I just imagining some idealistic version of the past that never existed, where politicians acted in good faith and people cared about the social order?
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FWIW I feel the same way about people putting A1 on their steak.
Man at least get your stereotypes right, the squirrel eaters are in Québec, they are not a common critter in Europe.
LOL do Canadians actually eat squirrels? I had no idea.
Well I don’t know if it’s a common thing but I heard someone from there tell me about this so I thought that’s what you were referencing. In their story it was even about how you were limited to hunting a certain number of squirrels per day, but maybe they were winding me up haha.