system
A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
There are certain parts of the US that are very conservative to the degree that they fear anything that might upset their particularly vision of the status quo.  Certain parts of the media have realized they can make a lot of money by finding very stupid things and saying "see look, the left wants to change the world to be different than the one you grew up in".  One of a number of really stupid things they are upset about this year is drag shows.  They see men dressing as women to be an affront to traditional gender roles, and as an attack on masculinity, which they think is catastrophic.  Some politicians have learned that they can attract a sizable amount of votes simply by virtue signaling to whatever the latest crazy thing the conservatives hate.  As such you see legislature advanced that is ridiculous because it proves the politician is "standing up for traditional values".
gpt
Doesn't the US have both freedom of religion and no religion and politics mixing in their constitution? We have those too which means that due to freedom of religion no one gets to push theirs on someone elses as religion is a personal thing to keep to yourself. How is that not working out there?

These religious crazies here have consistently only made up 3 out of the 150 seats in the parliament, i dont see how it could ever come to that.