Decades of American Dream, Shining City On The Hill, Land Of Opportunity type propaganda. Plus the fact that you did/do have plenty of people trying to immigrate and seek a better life in america (because america/it's proxies/other imperial states wrecked their home country but they don't focus on that)

Plus that kind of boomer has rarely travelled outside their comfort zone or met people from different walks of life so they can't comprehend why people wouldn't want a 40 year mortgage on a suburban home, 2.5 kids, a lawn, suv, 2 hour daily commute, and zero community

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My parents have fully internalized this sort of propaganda and it was always so frustrating as a kid to bring like a whole ass PowerPoint of facts with citations to try and correct the buckwild stuff they think and it was always like a brick wall.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

American Exceptionalism might be the most successful propaganda project of all time. So many people (not just Americans either) have bought in completely to the idea that America is the Best Country In The World™ and refuse to budge despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary.

The Newsroom is Libslop but that monologue on "how is america the greatest country in the world" hit the nail on the fucking head and that was almost 20 years ago. America has never been the greatest yet legions of people have the unshakable faith that there's no place better in the world

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

Also because living in the US as a migrant non citizen in any kind of longer term situation is a hell of bureaucracy and precarity. It used to be if you became a citizen you would at least not feel like you were gonna get kicked out of the country for no reason.