The fucking cracker barrel discourse just proves that american politics is completely retarded and that people prefer talking about irrelevant non issues because they have a conscious and subconcious feeling that the actual problems with america cant be fixed. Marx once described religion as the "opiod of the masses" but america has become a generator of opiods for the masses far removed from religion. You see the same phenomenon with the discourse around mamdani and vance vs newsome. Everyone is doing political escapism because confronting the actual issues is too daunting and 70% of the people theyd try to talk to about it cant even comprehend it.
