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Have Americans always been this stupid?
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this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
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First, your premise is inflammatory and I'm pretty sure it's intentional, so apology not accepted.
Second, this is not a uniquely American problem. The UK, for example, has been dealing with the rising conservatism, the dismantling of their government, the privatization of major public services like the rail network, etc. This is the natural conclusion of that process: oligarchs gain so much power they can outright buy presidential elections and accelerate the trend toward fascism. Lots of people have seen this coming, but we can only vote so hard.
There was a post on some Lemmy community or other yesterday which stated that most Americnas support ideas like universal healthcare (55%) and getting rid of guns from private ownership (mid 60% IIRC).
In that thread someone said it was awful that even amongst progressives the support for universal healthcare was so low and the very few responses to that were basically - :shrug: we've been lied to what are we gonna do about it?
The responses to the gun ownership stat were numerous and declared support for 'second amendment rights'.
When even US progressives are passionately defending the biggest cause of child death in the USA in 2022 but are apathetic about universal healthcare, that's a uniquely US problem that speaks very much to the level of thinking power available.
I think I saw that post, and IIRC it was something like 60% of people own guns, and 90% of people support more gun control - there was no mention of getting rid of guns. But, fair enough.
Yes, America has been sliding into a hypercapitalist hellhole because the right breaks the rules and wins no matter what and then throws wrench after wrench in the works, while the left has no positive vision for the future and has abandoned the working class, so yeah, it's not surprising that there's been little to now resistance and lots of appeasement and collaboration with this bullshit. It's infuriating. But it's not, as I said, uniquely American; we're just further along than everyone else.
You’re using whataboutism and did not answer the question. Your comment is useless.
The answer is “don’t call Americans stupid without looking in the mirror”
Whataboutism is 'Well it's not bad if we did it because these other guys did it too!'. That's not what this is.
What I'm doing is reflecting that this is a global issue that is not UNIQUELY an American problem (you must've missed the word uniquely before.) That phrase, 'not uniquely American', means that while I acknowledge that it is also a problem for us - and in fact I have no reservations about saying that it's worse here than anywhere else (so far) - that it's happening elsewhere too.