https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z7EsHjPu2ss

I can't quite put my finger on it. But it feels like a co-option, a pied piper thing, like the "free" cheese in a trap. Not that there's anything wrong with what he says, per se, it's the environment around it. The stage. The show. The rah-rah rhetoric on the surface and the string-pullers behind the curtain. The appeal to emotion and a martyr complex. The almost pearl-clutching way they speak about what ails us as a "nation" (whatever that means) and the framing of the only acceptable prognosis (true enough in itself, but) that can also get co-opted into something vicious. The litmus tests of acceptable opinion. The marshaling of a wholesome but perhaps naive patriotism into Their Sacred Cause. The parasitic ideas that get latched on to otherwise healthy (even godly) ideas. I don't know. Something.

I don't quite know how to say it, but it just seems really off, really dangerous.

Keep your guard up, brothers and sisters. Things are getting weirder by the hour.