The Zeitgeist is epitomized by a general hysteria, incapable of proportional thinking and hostile to reason, and so it should come as no surprise that our new leadership is exploiting that for its own ends, mostly to distract you while they make money hand over fist.
Everything is awesome. Everyone is great.
But everything is also a disaster, and the worst ever.
COVID was going to kill us all. The vaccines were going to save us all.
Biden was going to cure cancer. RFK Jr is going to solve the mystery of autism by September.
All those people streaming across the border during the Biden administration were seeking asylum. Now under Trump they were an invading enemy army.
The recession of 2008 had to be The Great Recession, or The Great Financial Crisis, as if 10.7% unemployment in 4Q1982 was the golden age of Ronald Reagan, and over 3,000 savings and loans didn't go belly up during that decade and part of the next.
Heat waves and cold waves are unprecedented, unless you talk to an old person. We have 12 years left before global warming kills us all.
Putin is going to launch a thermonuclear WWIII, same as Saddam Hussein.
So of course trade deficits are suddenly an emergency.
