Don’t Believe Your Lyin’ Eyes
For years, Americans have been told not to believe what they’re seeing, but we can’t keep pretending this is normal.
Crime spikes were supposedly exaggerated. Public disorder was “isolated.” Viral videos of chaos in schools, malls, airports, and city streets were dismissed as random incidents amplified by social media.
But eventually the clips pile up faster than the excuses.
That’s where we are now.
When Disorder Becomes Entertainment
Graduation ceremonies once represented achievement, family pride, and stability. Increasingly, they’re turning into spectacles filled with fights, screaming, twerking, crowd chaos, and security intervention while exhausted parents sit in disbelief, wondering what happened to basic standards.
Meanwhile, teen takeovers continue spreading across major cities as crowds shut down intersections, torch cars, block traffic, and treat public disruption like performance art for TikTok.
Through all of it, much of the media class still seems more interested in explaining away the behavior than confronting what it represents.
At some point, people stop accepting the “this is fine” meme.
The Growing Exhaustion Factor
The frustration building across the country is not just about isolated incidents. It’s about the growing realization that standards themselves are collapsing while institutions refuse to acknowledge it honestly.
That frustration also extends into politics.
The murder of the owner of the famous “Trump House” in Escondido after a brutal assault is reigniting uncomfortable conversations that the establishment seems unwilling to have. Conversations about political violence, media double standards, and which victims receive national outrage versus silence.
Even Spencer Pratt has become an unlikely but effective symbol of growing public frustration as concerns over crime, dysfunction, and urban decline push more Americans away from establishment narratives.
People may disagree on the causes.
But fewer and fewer Americans are willing to pretend the deterioration isn’t real anymore.
“Big-E”
Earl “Big E” Jackson is the host of The Mission Ready Men Briefing on the SHR Media network. The opinions expressed in this article are his own and reflect a commitment to Biblical principles, primary source research and constitutional literacy.
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