Thinking about similarities between the way we got into our current situation and how the US bullshat itself into the Iraq War but the differences seem a lot more stark: like, the US press did actually admit it had fucked up and it was their fault, which will never happen here.

Also, it was only nutters on the internet in the US who suggested the Democrats were in league with Al Qaeda, or said they threatened “American values” or compared them to Nazis, and not the actual newspapers.

Also, I’m pretty sure that if newspapers had started threatening judges or if the Bush admin had intentionally and unlawfully shut Congress or any of that other fun stuff we had, that would’ve made even the most I’m Not One Of Those “I Hate America” Antiwar People hacks sit up.

And it has to be said that the whole Bush Admin clan look like feeble wimps compared to us when it comes to looking the public in the eye and straight up lying, or encouraging the public to hate MPs, officials and journos. And I’m talking about just Theresa May, not even Johnson.

Even in the wider culture, renaming chips or recording terrible country songs or crushing albums recorded by suddenly reviled liberal traitors looks like tame, tame stuff compared to the deep-seated insanity that was intentionally inflicted on Britain to push Brexit through.

America has us beat hands down for corruption and insanity right now but we are *way* less than seventeen years behind them in our own evolution towards it, and we are a million leagues ahead of them in batshit newspaper coverage and our almost totally co-opted media culture.

But I suppose the key difference is that America was reeling from history’s most terrifying terrorist attack, while Britain just has a shit tabloid culture that deranged a few million lead-brained Boomer dullards because we can’t put racist caricatures on jam jars any more.