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Good question. What keeps Americans of all races and creeds together?
It is not politics, it is not voting - about half of eligible voters do not bother to register and vote, but no one wants to excommunicate them from ranks of American nation.
Yes there is something, and this is sport - more precisely, sports that are played only or mostly in good ole US.
Throwing big ball, kicking ball (but in completely different way than rest of the world kicks ball), beating small ball with big stick.
This is why everything stops during the biggest sport event of the year, this is why it is so big deal what music is playing and what advertisements run in this grand event.
This is the way it is, and it had been for a long time. Remember what happened during WW2 when Americans needed to find enemy infiltrators in American uniforms speaking English? Knowledge of baseball players and trivia was the shibboleth to find out real Americans from the other kind.
("American" who knows nothing about hitting small ball with big stick is no real American and will not be missed)
I know you were trying to mock the whole thing, but writing it down in Grugspeak makes it sound pretty based.
Yes it is based and ball pilled.
In the late unpleasantness in god fearing Yugoslavia, when thugs with guns wanted to find who are you, they forced you to cross yourself. If you did it the wrong way, you were fucked.
In today's Ukraine, a foodie place, it is Palianytsia. Do not know what it is, cannot pronounce it correctly? You doubly fucked.
In America, it is the ball. If you expect interesting times incoming, get prepared, learn all what you can about balls.
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Meanwhile I'm sitting here like "this but without the irony".
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