Misty on Nostr: I can't speak for everyone, but I know growing up in America, being taught what it ...

I can't speak for everyone, but I know growing up in America, being taught what it was and what it is and what it's supposed to stand for definitely does not match up to many things we see today.

For me, over the last several years (tiny cracks in the narrative started after 9-11), I've watched a layer here and layer there fall apart. When you face it, it causes an emotional grieving to take place.

When you really look at it and see things for what they are -- I know I went through a grieving process.

I still have hope for America, but I no longer pretend it's something that it isn't. It was disheartening to come to understand just how far back the rabbit hole goes.

Many Americans today are either waking up and beginning that grieving process so they can find their forward or, like you mention here, they stay willfully ignorant.

But now I know why.

Many people cannot face the truth of what things have become. It' too much.

If they did, it means the narrative they've been taught to support all these decades isn't 100% true. And if that's not 100% true, what does that mean for their life, the choices they thought they were making back in the day, and for some, even the military service they took part in.

Then let's say they get through all of that, process it, grieve it, etc. Now what?

Now they can see the corruption in the places it exists and they can kind of predict the behavior and see the propaganda where they couldn't before.

Some will get through this part and feel completely hopeless and despondent because they feel like they will never be able to change things.

It's a huge mental crack and most people cannot bear it.

I never want to lose that hope that things will turn around, but I'm definitely more guarded about the impact of the corruption.