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What the hell is wrong with Americans? (Original Post) bluestarone May 2021 OP
Racism, selfishness, ignorance USAFRetired_Liberal May 2021 #1
Exactly MLAA May 2021 #4
Ignorance for sure. Keep under-educated, stupid and uninformed. brush May 2021 #8
It's not about what the Biden Administration has nykym May 2021 #2
It's about owning th elibs Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #3
Yup! SheltieLover May 2021 #12
Disinformation, propaganda....plain and simple Chakaconcarne May 2021 #5
Right wing media creates a false reality that shapes their beliefs about what is happening. jalan48 May 2021 #6
Religion. 50 Shades Of Blue May 2021 #7
THIS i really believe is lot of the problem bluestarone May 2021 #9
I don't think it's this USAFRetired_Liberal May 2021 #11
Religion Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #15
True believers or pretend believers, the negative results are the same. 50 Shades Of Blue May 2021 #22
Same thing that's wrong with all humans in general. Binkie The Clown May 2021 #10
Which Americans? MineralMan May 2021 #13
You're probably right. bluestarone May 2021 #19
Hooked on greed and racism. n/t moondust May 2021 #14
The right wing Fascist propaganda runs high. Many,.. many AmeriKKKans,.. magicarpet May 2021 #16
Fox News Initech May 2021 #17
Bingo, they are lying to too many people uponit7771 May 2021 #18
It is scary how many are believing their bullshit bluestarone May 2021 #20
And I know people who have every TV in their house tuned to Fox 24/7. Initech May 2021 #26
Ignorance rules these brain dead jackasses. 634-5789 May 2021 #21
Greed and Racism more than anything . They are not all as stupid or mentally ill as they act IMO luckone May 2021 #23
It's the conservatives who seek to maintain their status as any cost that are the problem. Dawson Leery May 2021 #24
We are a nation suffering from lead poisoning... NewDayOranges May 2021 #25
food additives markie May 2021 #27

brush

(57,904 posts)
8. Ignorance for sure. Keep under-educated, stupid and uninformed.
Thu May 6, 2021, 09:39 AM
May 2021

Appoint people like Devos as education secretary and viola...you have stupid people doing stupid things. Like voting for republicans who don't give a you know what for the 99%.

nykym

(3,063 posts)
2. It's not about what the Biden Administration has
Thu May 6, 2021, 09:30 AM
May 2021

done, it's about owning the Libs at any cost.
even if it hurts them.

USAFRetired_Liberal

(4,305 posts)
11. I don't think it's this
Thu May 6, 2021, 09:50 AM
May 2021

They pretend to be religious and They hide behind religion to justify their despicable behavior and to have a sense of “moral authority”....but they really don’t believe in the stuff that they preach...hence why they support Trump, and have hypocrites like Jerry Falwell and Josh Duggar

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
15. Religion
Thu May 6, 2021, 10:16 AM
May 2021

The Southerners used their religion and their bible to justify holding people in bondage, complete with the violence, rape and torture that went with it. With specious interpretations of the English bible, translated form the Latin, and the Greek, and the Hebrew....

Same people twisting the same bullshit mythology to hate everyone not like them while they violate their own behavioral standards over and over.

Religion shares the same Indo-European root word as Regulate.
Religions want to regulate what you can eat and with whom you can sleep, usually to the benefit of the patriarchy at the top.

50 Shades Of Blue

(10,897 posts)
22. True believers or pretend believers, the negative results are the same.
Thu May 6, 2021, 10:51 AM
May 2021

Jerry Falwell and the Duggars owe their success to true believers.

MineralMan

(147,811 posts)
13. Which Americans?
Thu May 6, 2021, 10:02 AM
May 2021

You need a qualifying adjective in your question there, I think.

I'm an American, and I assume you are, as well. Be more specific.

magicarpet

(16,725 posts)
16. The right wing Fascist propaganda runs high. Many,.. many AmeriKKKans,..
Thu May 6, 2021, 10:32 AM
May 2021

... believe a democracy is too hard, requires too much thinking, and is unnecessarily inclusive of too many people of varying persuasions, ethnic, and racial backgrounds.

They think a white supremacist strongman as head of our government is the only way to preserve white privilege, white power, and white racial supremacy, to the exclusion of all others.

Many are on the verge of contemplating civil war to preserve their inherently woven into the social fabric,.. their myriad of advantages currently expected and enjoyed by them.

This fascist propaganda of diminishing white advantage has for decades been pumped into their heads.

It took us awhile to realize their end game. It is the same end game of all fascist regimes. The goal is to crush democracy from within, built a formative coalition of like minded conspirators, then execute a quiet barely recognizable coup de' tat. Then proceed to fully trash any remaining remnants of a functional democracy by installing a tight fisted jackbooted Fascist state built on the theme of intolerance of countering opinions or viewpoints.

Fascism snuck up on us and is now banging and kicking in what we erroneously thought was the rigid and stable front door of our democracy. The Fascist barbarians are presently crashing through the gates and are dismantling piece by piece our protective walls. But we can't figure out what to do about it, what action to take to suppress this rampant out of control and overwhelming fascism.

The march of fascism persists,... we better get our act together to combat the onslaught of crushing fascist authoritarianism coming our way. Our democracy is under grave peril, they will not stop until they have totally decimated our government and then us personally.

Initech

(102,238 posts)
17. Fox News
Thu May 6, 2021, 10:34 AM
May 2021

Seriously I know so many people who have fallen under the spell of the Fox News siren. And once you do there's no going back to reality.

bluestarone

(18,330 posts)
20. It is scary how many are believing their bullshit
Thu May 6, 2021, 10:41 AM
May 2021

I would have never believe that some Americans are that CRAZY! NOW i know better.

Initech

(102,238 posts)
26. And I know people who have every TV in their house tuned to Fox 24/7.
Thu May 6, 2021, 11:57 AM
May 2021

It's an addiction and a scary one at that. That's where it starts and it ends with the Q Anon rabbit hole.

luckone

(21,646 posts)
23. Greed and Racism more than anything . They are not all as stupid or mentally ill as they act IMO
Thu May 6, 2021, 11:25 AM
May 2021

Privilege perceived as in danger , be it their money or skin color

Too many like that will however keep up with all the bullshit lies of thier leaders and media outlets will try to con the low IQ into anger against Biden if they can too, and have in the past .
Big lies accepted for their own small world of greed and racism, they will play along with the lies that hook the stupid to join them
They don’t care about the country as a whole like Biden's view

The greedy do not want to pay a dime or pay any Corp tax yet want to use bridges streetlights municipal water systems the FAA to land their planes
and demand police and fire depts do their job etc
Trump was their guy
Trump checked all the boxes heck he even cut agencies that would have been beneficial in the pandemic & they still see nothing wrong with that, even now

NewDayOranges

(731 posts)
25. We are a nation suffering from lead poisoning...
Thu May 6, 2021, 11:39 AM
May 2021

Not ALL of us but enuf of us to change social morms and impact society at large!

Lead-tainted water supply - it brought down the Roman Empire...

markie

(22,936 posts)
27. food additives
Thu May 6, 2021, 12:00 PM
May 2021

bad water
lack of critical thinking skills
lack of curiosity
too much meat
poor education
poor parenting
Fundamental Christianity
short-sightedness
not enough hugs and love from others
not enough exercise
too much processed food
et., etc., etc...........................

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