Just something MAGA-people seem to have a hard time with sometimes. Probably not as much when Americans are speaking to themselves, but as a non-American, sometimes it’s challenging to get “those people” to admit that there is indeed anything wrong with the US. As in they won’t accept a single criticism, and will loudly proclaim “America is the greatest country in the world”, while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, which for me pretty explicitly means America isn’t great, if it has to be made to be such again.
Yeah, but it’s not the gotcha you think it is. The entire right-winger thing is whinging about everything being someone’s fault. Particularly de gubmit. Even in cases when they are in a majority in said “gubmit” at the time, and have been for nigh on a decade.
Point is, you are implicitly giving these cretins too much credit in the rhetoric they use. It’s not meant to make sense. It’s meant to rile up rednecks/whatever-other-relevant-stereotype.
Oh no, I’m not giving them credit, I know they aren’t up for actual logic. I’m just trying to strike up conversation on Lemmy with random brainfarts.
It’s just funny when you start talking to some of these people, and they’re used to arguing domestic opposition, blaming other Americans. So when someone non-American starts talking to them, their nationalism flares up and suddenly all the things that were shit due to the dems is not shit but glorious great, flawless America. I know it’s overused as an expression, but dem fucking mental gymnastics are baffling.
Industrial strength cognitive dissonance, the only thing involving cognition they’re good at at all.