Hi there! American here, it absolutely is! The republicans and oligarchs (and quite frankly the democrats too cuz let’s face it, they are in the pockets of billionaires as well) have been working at this for decades and they’re finally seeing the fruits of their labor in Trump being elected twice. They’ve been cutting funds in education, especially in the poorest areas and poorest states, for decades now. As well as making healthcare inaccessible and too expensive so that not only are these people uneducated, but they’re too poor and worrying about how to eat and pay the bills and dying from sickness to focus on anything but survival. Easily manipulated and looking for people to blame. Lgbtq people, black people, brown people, immigrants, it’s all their fault! Focus on all this bullshit so you don’t see what’s actually going on! Also, restricting women’s healthcare and abortion being a topic because they want to force poor uneducated women to have more babies because those babies will grow up to fill their factories and for-profit prisons. Prisoners here work making tons of all kinds of products, household items, car parts, etc. basically slave labor as they are only paid 20 cents an hour, if that (and it all goes back to the prison anyway because the prisoners will use that money to buy things from the commissary) Sorry for such a long comment, I’m going crazy over here and been spouting off about all this for 22 years (I’m 38 lol)
Oh yes, young black men especially, have been the targets in our judicial and prison system since those systems were put into place. The amount of black men in our prisons is abhorrent, and if they are even able to get out, they are felons unable to vote and with records unable to get any kind of well paying jobs, or even jobs at minimum wage. Many like to say the system is broken, but unfortunately it’s not, it’s working just as intended. We grew up with parents and our schools telling us we are the greatest country in the world, but we are not. The USA is a powerful, imperialist country that commits acts of terrorism throughout the world. And most of us don’t even know how many countries we occupy or who we’re bombing. You’d be scared to see how many people born and raised here with families who have been here for generations be unable to show you on a map where other states in our own country are. Let alone any provinces in Canada or states in Mexico or any countries in South America or overseas. Most don’t even know our own history. And we are the number one developed country when it comes to child starvation. The people in power do not care about its own citizens including the most vulnerable. We are evil. And for those of us that know what’s going on (and there’s many) it’s maddening to try to talk to the people suffering and voting against themselves. They are indoctrinated and do not process the mental capacity/not exposed to different people/cultures/ideas to understand what’s actually going on. A lot of us are terrified as we slip further and further away from even the illusion of democracy and further into fascism. Some people here truly believe billionaires like Musk actually care about them and our country
ETA I promise I’m done now 🤣 thank you for your response and so sorry again for another long rant. It’s refreshing to see a post from overseas and be able to read your perspectives on all this insanity
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u/Objective-Resident-7 3d ago
Absolute cunt. Voted for by absolute idiots.
I spent long enough telling myself that stereotypes are not useful and that I shouldn't think of the stereotypical 'stupid' American.
But they keep proving me wrong. Over and over.