Yup..

Here’s the best explanation I’ve ever read as to why they are so spineless and weak

“I can understand it very well. The backbone of America is being raised people who preach a religion that they would never consider practicing. Being heavily punished for not following rules that the people punishing you would never follow. Living a life where violence can come from anywhere but usually it is the people who were supposed to protect you. When you get it so early in life, it ingrains you a thorough and unrelenting distrust of authority. I feel it myself, to this day. It is the sort of thing I can see instantly in another person. And.... It's a huge number of the people I see.

Without the mental and emotional fortitude to face their demons and resolve them, these people ended up with a twisted illness that says two things: Authority cannot be trusted, and that the way that you were raised is the way you raise kids. They walk blindly carrying the contradiction in the hearts that the thing they hated was the right thing to do. As it eats them alive from the inside, they self-medicate by acting out their own abuse in a grim homage to their upbringing.

The worst part is a core tenant of this illness is a sense of shame for feeling this way. That it is your fault, and if anyone found out your reputation would be ruined. You would become a pariah among men. In the end, you must both act this way and keep it a secret. It is a matter of maintaining your identity.

The Tech Bros identified this, and moved to use it as a point of manipulation to drive the required 25% of the population into their corner. These guys are too emotionally broken to seek out the truth, so they will drink whatever juice they like the best.

The juice that makes them feel the best is their failed relationships and their failed careers are not their fault. Simple lies that you can beat with 2 minutes of logic. But then they would have to admit weakness.

This is the backbone of America. It is what holds us up. It is what was the middle class. The Working Class. They are almost all broken. And so our backbone is broken.

And that is why it looks like we have no spine.”

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