Most people aren’t paying attention to any of this most of the time.
They should be, lack of attention is how you get this shit, but they don’t.
We need to overhaul democracy to account for this because I think the founders assumed a pissed off and highly involved populace when they wrote the constitution. They didn’t assume a social media addled distracted populace.
The older I get, the more I think the founders probably thought rich white landowners would keep the nation in check. I have less and less faith in their work. It was good for its time, but we have advanced in knowledge since then.
Yep. It’s like obesity. We were the first nation to have an explosio of obesity because our food became so cheap (and much of it low quality in the sense of nutrition), and so many other nations are facing that now, you don’t hear people giving us quite as much shit as they used to. Funny that.
The rise of fascism is also global. I just hope they use our failure to prevent their own. But meanwhile I’ve been told to fuck off because I haven’t chosen to lay down my life (which we only get this one of) which wouldn’t help anyway.
I understand anti-US sentiment, but a lot of these people coming out of the woodwork to shit all over us should really take a look in their own houses, too. (Also, for the record, the US does suck)
I feel like kids in 40 years will be saying “the corruption was so obvious, how were you not rioting in the streets every day?”
Assuming things get better…
Most people aren’t paying attention to any of this most of the time.
They should be, lack of attention is how you get this shit, but they don’t.
We need to overhaul democracy to account for this because I think the founders assumed a pissed off and highly involved populace when they wrote the constitution. They didn’t assume a social media addled distracted populace.
The older I get, the more I think the founders probably thought rich white landowners would keep the nation in check. I have less and less faith in their work. It was good for its time, but we have advanced in knowledge since then.
We did advance. There have been 27 amendments.
We need to actually to enforce them. It’s been the same fight since the 14th amendment passed. It’s that simple.
We advanced in some ways, but we’ve also almost completely fallen to fascism, so ti’s kinda a mixed bag. heh
People prefer to eat food and take care of their kids and families, it’s crazy
you know what I’m talking about… you’re posting on Lemmy instead of rioting, after all.
… even if you’re not in the USA, your country is neck deep and feeding the beast.
Yep. It’s like obesity. We were the first nation to have an explosio of obesity because our food became so cheap (and much of it low quality in the sense of nutrition), and so many other nations are facing that now, you don’t hear people giving us quite as much shit as they used to. Funny that.
The rise of fascism is also global. I just hope they use our failure to prevent their own. But meanwhile I’ve been told to fuck off because I haven’t chosen to lay down my life (which we only get this one of) which wouldn’t help anyway.
I understand anti-US sentiment, but a lot of these people coming out of the woodwork to shit all over us should really take a look in their own houses, too. (Also, for the record, the US does suck)
Just like all the kids who talk about Nixon (granted he comes up in conversation occasionally, but pretty rarely).
Then again, like you say… assuming we survive. heh