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The Exhaustion of Pretend Patriotism and Phony Faith
Life is exhausting these days for many of us and I think I've figured out why.
I think it's the pretending we’re witnessing.
You see, it's bad enough watching nearly half our nation becoming fully indoctrinated into a sycophantic cult of personality of the very worst kind of person; to see once reasonable people abandon any semblance of benevolence toward diverse humanity, to find themselves so deluded by tribalism that they declared war on vaccines and gay kids and the electoral process—all the while assuming some supposed moral high ground.
And as infuriating as it is witnessing tens of…
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