This is why all the hate at one man to me is meaningless. He’s a symptom, the issue is the rot of the general populace, the fact that he could get more than 5% of the vite at all shows how far we have fallen. It’s not one mans fault, it’s a society who is so selfish and ignorant that they vote in the most selfish ignorant leaders, and the most idiotic thing is that they truly believe someone just as selfish and ignorant as them will end up helping them, that they’ll be on the inside somehow. Instead we continue to spiral downward.
Americans have no one else to blame but themselves
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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks ago
stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
politics is downstream from culture. and American culture (if such a thing even exists)is deeply flawed.
some of it, perhaps, is because America never fully reconciled its brutal origins or path to becoming a so-called ‘superpower’. nor have the people acknowledged the ongoing systemic violence enacted in America’s name.
progress is possible. America has made intermittent advances in civil rights and select areas where the public benefited. it isn’t all shit though it does feel that way at times.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The problems in American culture directly flow from conservatives, so the problems in our culture are also downstream of politics. Conservatives ended reconstruction, whipped up the populous into an anti-communism fervor, and helped push evangelicalism into the mainstream, all of which have real and massive impacts to this day.
The failure to follow through with the reconstruction allowed racism to cement it’s hold on the south, and the lost cause myth has helped spread that rot across the country. The push for anti-communism rotted the American psyche and helped push us to the hyper-capitalist consoomer mindset where everyone is encouraged to get that badly however possible. Evangelicalism has been the vehicle used over the last half to full century to steer the culture; look at how they turned abortion into a culture war from nothing in under a decade. That same playbook is in active use today against transgender people, and it’s the exact same one they used against the gays a few decades ago.
Balldowern@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I disagree. Most of the Americans I know fought against the Iraq war, they protested the banking bailouts, they didn’t support the torture program & they’re vehemently against the war in Iran. The guys I know will not accept the draft either.
Most (if not all) Americans I personally know are isolationists (no foreign intervention/entanglement).
NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
The vast majority of Americans have plenty of people to blame.
AviAdi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Like who? I’m curious to know…
darctones@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Republican gerrymandering
bizarroland@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
By themselves I assume you mean each other.
Where I have been an informed voter, I have always voted for the greater good, for the policies and politicians that at least claim to be focused on the well-being of the individual, vetted to the best of my abilities.
AviAdi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Your institutions are shit and should be destroyed, burned down even. They did nothing to stop trump after his first fascist insurrection. It’s the people and their institutions that need to be killed and destroyed
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re American, you did nothing to stop Trump. You’ve burned nothing down, you’ve destroyed nothing. All you’ve done is pretend you’re not part of the problem. You’ve done nothing but point the finger at other Americans and pretend you’re better. You’re a glowing agitator or a mentally unwell person.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Nothing, such as bringing a different president to power?