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Why can't we shake the gloom? It's more than inflation or higher prices.
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One major societal problem we need to fix in America is our neighbors who are literally insane and not living in reality. They have gone beyond politics at this point, and have become Qanon cult wackos with mental disorders. They can't answer basic questions that orient them to time and place, like who is the president, and what year it is. They think Trump is the "shadow" president and that history/reality is fake, and that the United States is a corporation because Republican lies incorporate all these fake lies into one big mish mash. And when that breaks through for them every once in a while and they're forced to accept reality (see: dying from Covid) they become dangerous to others in the real world.
You can't have such a large % of people believing that Reptilian Jews are eating the blood of babies to remain younger, and that ALL of them are Democrats. Never mind how their minds dodge the fact that the majority of Republican politicians are the sex offenders. They have even more insane beliefs than that I've seen that it looks like schizophrenia.
I really want health professionals to step in here because most of us don't have the expertise to deal with something so bad in our friends and neighbors.
I like to ask those that claim donnie is the "real" president why it is that he's being indicted and having trials?
Their response is usually "he's not the real Trump" and "that's not the real Biden." Just expect a new made up event to explain away reality.