First a convicted felon as President, the way lgbtq people are treated, the rich controlling the media, constant warfare "for the good", and also taking advantage of third-world counties, ie nestle
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Because that would be inconvenient.
American culture is everything available at all times everywhere, and if it isn't it is a tragedy.
American propaganda playing on wide screen TVs 24/7, social media fills in the gaps.
It really is easy to see but hard to pinpoint on a personal level unless you are affected by whatever is currently happening that is the disaster/crime/injustice.
Long answer short: enough of the people are comfy in their worlds to give 2 shits.
I am an American native, EU resident visiting family for the first time in 6 years and....it's overwhelming to me.
Would you elaborate more about what you believe is 'bad'?
First a convicted felon as President, the way lgbtq people are treated, the rich controlling the media, constant warfare "for the good", and also taking advantage of third-world counties, ie nestle
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It really does seem like it's turning into fascism
a convicted felon as President
I don't believe that we'll ever know precisely why and how this happened. However, my best guess is that the general public is uneducated and brainwashed by the media.
the way lgbtq people are treated
This one depends on which state you live in.
the rich controlling the media
This one has been going on for a long time. My best guess is that the rich and powerful want to become more rich and powerful.
constant warfare “for the good”
The billionaire oligarchs that are profiting from this have to paint it as such to get all the young people to participate.
taking advantage of third-world counties
The oligarchs are diseased dragons lying atop mountains of gold (see J.R. Tolkien). They don't care about the earth or any life on it. The bottom line for them is power/money.
It’s a matter of perspective.
From your, and many rational being’s perspective, there being a felon for president is a bad thing. You trust the judicial system, you think they found and convicted rightly, so now we have a bad man in charge.
From the other perspective, the majority voting perspective, the judicial system has been usurped and politically weaponized, the trial was a sham and the conviction false. He’s not a felon, just an unjustly labeled political martyr. Or maybe even a felon is better than a woman, or, gasp, a colored woman! The racism and misogyny never died, just sat in the back until it was allowed to speak again.
Why do they think this? Well, why do you think opposite? Different upbringing, education, social media exposure, less lead in you/your parents?
Clinton's impeachment didn't get the votes to go through and I still think that is wrong.
I don't care who it is, but the President should be the best of the best of the country.
Trouble is, would you consider someone best if they have imperialist values? Socialist ones? Would they require a Ph.D? And no matter what you answer, someone will believe the opposite. Who gets to pick the best of the best? In the current system, supposedly the common people do.
And they picked Felump.
Sure, stats say he wasn’t actually super popular, but the voters that could have gone another way made their vote too by leaving the box empty and giving him no opposition. To paraphrase Rush, “if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”. So whether by checking the box or not, the people spoke, and here we are.
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Probably talking about the social media/traditional media posts & programs.
If that's the case, then my general answer would be that the US is not as bad as social media and other media conglomerates make things out to be. One reason being is the media figured out a while back that tactics such as fear-mongering gained more people's attention. Therefore people were more likely to read their newspapers and see their advertisements, etc. (i.e. clickbait)
Now that I have been, mostly, limiting my self to the Associated Press and National Public Radio I don't feel things such as impending doom.
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