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How Are Some People Like Circus Peanut Candy?

Surely the sweet treats have some fans … just haven’t found them yet

Amy Sterling Casil
4 min readJul 22, 2022

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Dunning-Kruger addicts. Narcissists (now lobbying to have their mental health condition no longer used to describe total @$$hat behavior — as long as they don’t hurt others, I’ll accept this premise).

Entitled douchey basement-dweller, aka Men’s Rights Advocates. Anti-abortion diehards who think it’s a great idea for 9-year-olds to bear triplets resulting from incestuous rape.

#BlueMAGA who believe Trump is Satan incarnate when he’s really just another jerky self-promoter and has probably run his course.

Health insurance executives.

And dare I add? … late night TV hosts …

and last, but never least … billionaires … (including an ‘orange’ one)

How are all of these like circus peanut candy?

Nobody likes them. They all suck.

But they keep getting put out for sale anyway.

I’ve been so disappointed and angry for so long that I’ve forgotten what I enjoyed about writing in the first place.

The other day I was thinking for a metaphor that fit the evil-spirited, vacuous, seemingly useless Men’s Rights abusers…

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Amy Sterling Casil
Amy Sterling Casil

Written by Amy Sterling Casil

Over 500 million views and 5 million published words, top writer in health and social media. Author of 50 books, former exec, Nebula nominee.

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