Amerikkka, you have become a cesspool of vulgarity and immoral disgust...bunch of inbred assholes. Until you change your pathetic ways, y'all can fuck right off.
I think the US became that place after the assassination of JFK, or not long afterwards. I remember when they cancelled the Smothers Brothers' show & replaced it with Hee Haw. Back when they introduced the Beverley Hillbillies, was when they programmed Americans to think that being stupid was cool.
From its inception? When the first indigenous people were raped and murdered. When the first slaves were imported. When the Puritans believed you could see god’s blessing by someone’s wealth and not by their actions. When they believed the poor were marked by god as bad.
The orange demon has brought every awful thing in the country and many of its people out into the open. The morons and fake Christian’s celebrate so they no longer have to keep their hatred mostly quiet.
woke is nothing more than basic human decency - and it is reviled by MAGA & the GOP - it is just common decency - I have no idea why the richest country in the world is SO full of hate and rage but it is disgusting and disgraceful and a terrible terrible wasted opportuity
The hard truth is, they were always among us. They were just wearing masks to fit in with the rest of the moral, decent people. Now we know the truth and I can’t figure out how to live among demons.
John Carpenter made a movie in 1988 with this theme.
"They Live". You could only see their true Lizard self with special sunglasses. They had the same Alpha/autocratic vibe hidden under nice suits. You have to remember that Roddy Piper (WWE) was the main actor.
I think the selfish mafia have taken over the morality for too many. Now it's cool to be cruel. Empathy is for suckers. because misery is much more profitable. The thin veneer of civilization is rapidly eroding . It took Europe 500 years to work through the feudal misery. Hope we can do better.
I think the internet allowed some people to become bullies with anonymity. They found echo chambers and it reinforced it. Christians using church as a clubhouse for the saved instead of a hospital for sinners reinforced a worldview of religious intolerance.
Well said. I also blame algorithms and the idolizing of tech and wealth. Manipulation of people through social media to some basic animal instincts that supposedly can be controlled with the power of the higher functions of a human brain. Hopefully that executive functioning will kick in again.
Not the nation I grew up in. Not the nation that was the envy of the world.
Some kind of third rate power now, scourge of the free world, with just about half the population embarrassed to call themselves "American".
I really don’t believe this. I do believe they are brainwashed. They may vote to hurt other people but they are so illiterate and unthinking they don’t know how they are hurting themselves.
I blame algorithms and the idolizing of tech and wealth. Manipulation of people through social media to some basic animal instincts that supposedly can be controlled with the power of the higher functions of a human brain. Hopefully that executive functioning will kick in again. Soon, please.
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I was depressed, but now I am certain that I do not want to live in Trump’s world.
The whole time really.
It's the apathy.
"They Live". You could only see their true Lizard self with special sunglasses. They had the same Alpha/autocratic vibe hidden under nice suits. You have to remember that Roddy Piper (WWE) was the main actor.
Some kind of third rate power now, scourge of the free world, with just about half the population embarrassed to call themselves "American".
Bad people. Not necessarily.
Idiots? Totally.