{"id":11986,"date":"2022-08-01T20:36:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T10:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rationalemagazine.com\/?p=11986"},"modified":"2022-08-01T20:54:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T10:54:01","slug":"the-american-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalemagazine.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/01\/the-american-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"The American scream"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>Editor\u2019s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our Publishing Guidelines.\nDear Editor,\nI am thankful beyond words to have chosen Australia rather than the sick, dysfunctional society that is the United States of America \u2013 which I do not even have any desire to visit.\nI fear that the civil unrest and rioting seen in recent years over Black Lives Matter and various other issues will pale into insignificance compared with what I foresee could lie ahead in response to the unconscionable reversal of Roe v Wade.\nIn America, a handful of middle-aged, probably Christian, white men believe they have the right to control what women are allowed to do with their bodies. It seems they feel entitled to impose their \u2018club rules\u2019 on people who neither are, nor wish to be, members of their \u2018club\u2019.\nIn America, the rights of people to own military-grade assault weapons far exceed the rights of children to return safely home from school. After each and every horrific event, police chiefs and mayors and governors, and even the President, seem to believe that their thoughts and prayers are all that\u2019s needed.\nHow is it possible that in a developed Western nation approximately 50 per cent of the population can idolise a yellow-haired, lying, sexist, misogynistic moron?\nJeff Lerner\n&nbsp;\nWhy I believe in conspiracy theories\nI tend to believe in conspiracy theories because they make me feel good in a number of ways:<\/p>\n<p>By ...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <hr style=\"width: 100%;max-width: 1000px !important;height: 5px;border-width: 0;color: red;background-color: red\" \/>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<h3><em>You're part way through this article. 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