The seeds of American narcissism have grown into fully developed trees. We, as a country, were really feeling ourselves after WW2. We have walked with our chest out for decades, daring a punk to jump up, involving ourselves in regime changes, sometimes out of protection of civilians, most of the time out of opportunity to sew instability, and secure strategic monetary/geopolitical spaces and resources. Now, more and more, we are seeing a bunch of weird, violent, miserable, hateful fukkfaces that think they and only them can fix it and “save” the country from “evil libs”. It’s so fukking stupid, and the worst part is, 20+% of this country have entered territory (Qanon specifically) that there really is no coming back from. These people have literally given up their family, friends, jobs, lives on the premise that they are the action star of this big movie and this shytty American narcissistic pride will never let these folks admit they are wrong. I don’t think an actual, physical “Civil War” will break out any time soon, but we will definitely have plenty of little Kyle R situations all around the country for the foreseeable future. We have turned politics into religion, and more so the right in this country have turned their political leaders into Gods on earth to worship, while some on the left, as a defense mechanism, decided to take on the attitude that their political leaders can do no wrong, and here we are, pretty much left with a dumpster fire