re: #33 Nerdy Fish

What disgusts me is that they think the righteousness of their cause is worth literal treason. They compare themselves to the Founding Fathers, but instead of wanting to build a better tomorrow and cast aside the iron yoke of a distant and uncaring King, they want to make slaves of all of us who aren’t them. They think their god will reward them for making this country the most bigoted country on earth, a shining beacon of extremist hatred. But from the standpoint of someone who is so deluded, so unmoored from reality that they genuinely believe that they are Crusaders, it actually makes sense. If I’m convinced that the Constitutional remedies to all my country’s problems are no longer an option, what else can I do but rebel, even knowing it will likely cost me my life?

They thought Handmaid’s Tale was an instruction manual.

There’s only the occasional reference to how it all came to be, not even flashbacks, but we know it started with an assault on congress and a massacre, and enough of the military was with them…