" When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are higher than Warren Buffet's. If we're all equally a bunch of suckers, how could any of us be worth hating? "

― Matt Taibbi , The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire