We’re all mad at each other.
What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?
Submitted 6 days ago by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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electric_nan@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Wrong people to be mad at. I know though. I see it on here everyday.
wabafee@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think internet in general specifically social media. It allows you to vent your frustrations without doing actual damage.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think social media has done tons of damage. It think it brought together a group of people who would have never found each other, because they don’t have any decernable skills, and let them spread and consume misinformation at alarming rates.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
It gets said over and over but the country is huge and your experience can vary greatly. If you are a govt employee work is likely more chaotic, some more than others. Telework people coming back to the office, looming layoffs, people resigning/staying, big organizational shifts etc.
If you know a person deported of who may be deported you probably are concerned for them and the world feels turned upside down.
But for most people the gas prices are about the same, groceries are about the same and their life is about the same. If it wasn’t for the news/internet most people probably couldn’t tell the difference. It takes a big event you can’t easily ignore (Covid 19, hurricane helene, LA fires) for SOME of the country to notice and take any action at all.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 days ago
But conditions everywhere are bad. Just because we’ve grown use to it doesn’t mean the constant drain on your heart, body, and mind has gone away. I’ve never lived in a time where the world around me wasn’t eriely cold and uncaring.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I guess it’s storytime! The rural area I grew up in was full of unionized industry jobs that shut down in the 80s, and then the auto industry followed in the 2000s. Many moved and for those that stayed life had sucked for a long while.
But the local mall stayed relevant (there’s not a whole lot else to do) and is now being filled with all kinds of new restauraunts and stores where old dead ones were. This was to meet demand since electric vehicle factories were built as well as amazon warehouses and other stuff. Then the taxes led to libraries and schools being built and upgraded.
Now it’s not all sunshine and rainbows of course but for the people there the world seemed cold and uncaring for decades. Now in their eyes it’s starting to come back and the federal government had little to do with it. I guess what I’m saying is that it’s all pretty subjective
Default_Defect@midwest.social 6 days ago
Most of us want someone else to do what needs to be done because we’re too busy simply making ends meet. Sure, let me just call out of work to do some protesting, oh shit, now I can’t afford rent, or food, or my meds, or paying off my last Dr visit, etc.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 days ago
And I guess the world around you could be burning and that’s like, not a big deal.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 6 days ago
Would you like me to be homeless or in the hospital from not being able to afford my medications? You seem pretty willing to sacrifice people like me at the altar.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
Bread and circuses.
Though that’s a little antiquated, so now it’s “high fructose corn syrup and superbowl”.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Gaslighting?
Gen_Euffe@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Complacency
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
Culture war.
Sabata11792@ani.social 5 days ago
Everyone is mad and everyone can’t agree why were mad so now were more mad.
drmoose@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think we’re just on a down wave globally. In early 00s we got social media which helped to organize people and lead to real actionable ideas. The bad actors figured it out and took control of our tools and now people are waiting for a new opportunity.
I think Americans need a strong leader and something to break the camel’s back. Everyone’s who’s angry now doesn’t have a good “deal” for risking exposure and their complacency because the failures are just too recent.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 days ago
“Wanting a strong leader” is what gave us trump. You be a leader or allow yourself to be led by people in your local community. There is no perfect leader that could ever check everyone’s boxes. If there was one thi g we could all agree on I’d like to know what it fucking is.
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 4 days ago
trump isn’t a strong leader, he’s a very accomplished con artist.
He allows people to project their vision of who he is on him.
You say I’m christian? Sure I’ll pretend I am
You say I’m anti abortion? Sure I’ll pretend that I am
You say I’m for the little guy? Sure, I’ll pretend that I care about them
You say I’m anti-vax? Sure, I’ll tell you that I am
You say I’m the second coming of Christ? Okay, I’m good with you thinking that about me
You say I’m a strong patriot? Sure, I’ll hug the flag and say the words you need me to say
He is everything to everyone of his supporters because he never tells them that they are wrong about who he is.
psmgx@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Decades of very effective propaganda combined with intrinsic ideological biases.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Visibly queer minority here! I’m probably gonna go to jail sometime in the next year for being trans in public. Until I do though, I’ve been lobbying state congress about some of the bills on the docket.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Please reach out if things get desperate, I probably can’t help but sure as shit would try.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
i think they are. they just been propagandized so hard with anticommunism that they are at a loss of what to do. thats not even jus the us.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Those of us who are extremely upset about the state of our country are constantly wondering WTF is wrong with the other ones.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 days ago
We’re all mad
expatriado@lemmy.world 6 days ago
own the libs is more important than progress
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Everyone I talk to is mad, my family is a bunch of Tumpers and beloeve everything he says.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There’s plenty that are mad.
Just that the minority that are happy about it and the billionaires that own all forms of media keep sweeping that fact under the rug. Or they put a question mark at the end of it. Are Americans all that upset about trump? How much damage is trump really doing? And then they softball the response to questions like that with “who really knows what the damage will be? when it’s objective what the results are and the future holds.
Auli@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
The majority of people votes for this that is why. The no voters just wanted a clean conscious but they still voted for this.
Dragonstaff@leminal.space 4 days ago
Around 1/3 of the country voted for him.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 days ago
Ignorance and apathy.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Because I’m not mad about it.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
Not yet 🙂
You’re in trouble like the rest of us. You just don’t know it yet.DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 5 days ago
I’m not in trouble at all. I’m financially independent, in a rural town, with my own place and land, and I don’t work for anyone.
And I also now that you the world isn’t going to end just because Trump is president. You all just doomscroll all day. Go outside. No one takes this as seriously as Lemmy does. lol
raynethackery@lemmy.world 6 days ago
We are mad but we are also distracted and overwhelmed. You can’t get mad at work because you might get fired. Then there goes your housing and food and healthcare. It’s going to have to get a lot worse before things pop off.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I AM mad. So are my close friends and family
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’m plenty mad but every solution short of REDACTED feels like a waste of time.
JoshuaBrusque@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Even suggesting REDACTED repulses the people who it would serve the most. Completely uninformed and lack of critical thinking.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’d do REDACTED if everyone else was down. I’m so bored of this mouse trap they built. I’d literally do anything else.
ef9357@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m infuriated! It’s like the US has lost their collective minds. But what’s the point in doing anything? This is what the voting populace of the US wants.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The voting populace can go fuck them selves. They are shit eating, brain worm addled, fucks.
DelightfullyDivisive@discuss.online 4 days ago
I don’t think that is true. It wasn’t a majority. (Although that’s a nitpick, it was close enough to say that about half of all voters voted for Trump.)
A more important consideration is that the majority of people who did vote for him are incredibly naive when it comes to politics. They think that the president sets gas prices, or that Trump and Musk are geniuses because they say they are. Most of them feel disenfranchised by both political parties, and this is a brick through the window of the established order. I don’t think most of the electorate thought this through much beyond that.
I honestly don’t know what difference it will make in the long run, but I don’t think it is true to say that this is what most people wanted.
veniasilente@lemm.ee 5 days ago
The fact that it’s exactly what they want.
Trump won with the popular vote: thhose want to be fascists. And those who don’t vote, well they just confirm a fascist in power.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Why do they argue so much about not being fascist then?
TigerWolfe@midwest.social 5 days ago
Their entire life they’ve been told fascism is bad, it is, they don’t want to accept that what they want makes them the bad guys, so those of us who want what’s happening are still going to deny it’s fascism.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 days ago
A sense of entitlement and superiority I would imagine.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I don’t know. Talking to everyone in this thread no one has told me they feel superior or beyond reproach. Mostly they just say their drawn too thin.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It is an ingrained attitude seen through statements like “leaders of the freeworld”, “the great american experiment”, “the most powerful person in the world (potus)”, etc.
Americans have too much pride in a shithole country. There just isnt much justifiable pride to be found in modern america yet the leading party over every part of government maintains this greatest countrt ever bs.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Police Procedural shows.
Law and Order, Criminal Minds, NCIS, CSI, Lie to Me, Dexter…
Basically, anything that makes people think that police are more effective at solving crime than they actually are.
Garlicsquash@lemmings.world 5 days ago
I honestly have no clue
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah, it’s pretty complex .
Yeller_king@reddthat.com 4 days ago
I dunno, they seem to be mad. It’s just most of them are wrong about who they should be mad at and why