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Welcome to the Apocalypse (Courtesy of Twitter)
From election interference to military psyops, we’re discovering the depths to which we’ve been deceived
For the past decade or so, many of us have felt that the world makes less sense because what we see happening around us doesn’t sync with how things are “supposed” to work:
If our leaders are acting in our best interests, then why is America turning into a country of haves and have-nots?
If the facts we get from our government and media are trustworthy, then how can dangerous “misinformation” become tomorrow’s headlines a few months later?
Why is the vaccine that was supposed to end the pandemic not preventing infection of those it was supposed to protect?
Many Americans dismiss this cognitive dissonance with the standard explanations: our leaders are well-intentioned, but incompetent; corruption and self-dealing are inevitable, but not widespread; the System isn’t perfect; hindsight is 20/20. Etc, etc. These explanations don’t instill confidence in our government, but we accept them because they’re more comforting than the alternative, which is far more unsettling.
The last thing we want to consider is the possibility that our leaders aren’t just incompetent or…
