No Stupid Questions

Real talk?

Because I'm tired. So absurdly tired. Tired of the stupid and the sensationalism and the faked anger and the real suffering and pain.

Am I mad? Yeah. But unfortunately I'm way more tired.

There’s plenty that are mad.

Just that the minority that are happy about it and the billionaires that own all forms of media keep sweeping that fact under the rug. Or they put a question mark at the end of it. Are Americans all that upset about trump? How much damage is trump really doing? And then they softball the response to questions like that with “who really knows what the damage will be? when it’s objective what the results are and the future holds.

Everyone is mad and everyone can't agree why were mad so now were more mad.

i think they are. they just been propagandized so hard with anticommunism that they are at a loss of what to do. thats not even just the us.

I think we're just on a down wave globally. In early 00s we got social media which helped to organize people and lead to real actionable ideas. The bad actors figured it out and took control of our tools and now people are waiting for a new opportunity.

I think Americans need a strong leader and something to break the camel's back. Everyone's who's angry now doesn't have a good "deal" for risking exposure and their complacency because the failures are just too recent.

The majority of people votes for this that is why. The no voters just wanted a clean conscious but they still voted for this.

Culture war.

Everyone I talk to is mad, my family is a bunch of Tumpers and beloeve everything he says.

Your core supposition is wrong, basically everyone is mad about the state of our country. We just have several different ideas on how to fix it and two parties who are dedicated to making it worse.

Who said we aren't mad?

Visibly queer minority here! I’m probably gonna go to jail sometime in the next year for being trans in public. Until I do though, I’ve been lobbying state congress about some of the bills on the docket.

The feeling that nobody else really gives a shit is what does it for me.

Who says we aren’t? Do you know how big this country is, and how much money it takes to fly to DC to protest? Do you understand that nobody wants to die for taking a shot at Trump or Elon?

Most of us want someone else to do what needs to be done because we're too busy simply making ends meet. Sure, let me just call out of work to do some protesting, oh shit, now I can't afford rent, or food, or my meds, or paying off my last Dr visit, etc.

We're all mad at each other.

It gets said over and over but the country is huge and your experience can vary greatly. If you are a govt employee work is likely more chaotic, some more than others. Telework people coming back to the office, looming layoffs, people resigning/staying, big organizational shifts etc.

If you know a person deported of who may be deported you are probably very concerned for them and the world feels turned upside down.

But for most people the gas prices are about the same, groceries are about the same and their life is about the same. If it wasn't for the news/internet most people probably couldn't tell the difference between administrations so far. It takes a big event you can't easily ignore (Covid 19, Hurricane Helene, LA fires) for even ONE REGION of the country to focus on a problem for a while.

And even then if you are outside of that area people probably won't change their routine beyond posting about it.

perhaps fear

Complacency

We're all mad

Decades of very effective propaganda combined with intrinsic ideological biases.