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I'm sure this is not a rare thing on Lemmy, but even as an American sitting in the US I see these headlines and think "lol get fucked."
Probably 100 Million people in this country need to be shocked into global reality. I worry just how bad things will have to get before that happens, though. It would be great to have an economy that would let me retire some day, sure, but the loss of institutions and technological advancement is sad for both us and for people that don't even exist yet.
And I'm not trying to be anti entertainment / gambling / prostitution, but Vegas is pretty low on the priority list of the american institutions trump is disintegrating. It has high international visibility though.
Oh things are going to have to get a whole lot worse before a significant amount of people finally PRIVATELY admit they were wrong and start quietly doing things differently.
Realistically we're going to see a decline in the quality of our lives probably for the rest of our lives before this ship MAYBE corrects course.
America is very, very dumb. That's something that, even under good circumstances, would probably take a generation or two to fix. But our circumstances aren't good and aren't getting better.
I hate to say it, but there are a number of better places to spend your life than the U.S. as it is now and will probably be for years and years to come. It's going to take a looooong time to rebuild what we're losing right now.
If only most americans knew this, it might actually self-correct!
But in a world with incredible, downright magical access to global communication and human knowledge, millions continue to choose folk wisdom and confirmation bias.
Oh I know. The only reason I'm still here is that I can't afford to leave.
I heard mars is nice this time of year....
I think that if we don't have civil war, the political sea change will come from Boomers dying of old age, allowing younger generations to slot into their evacuated political and fiscal offices.
And Gen Z is heavily right-leaning due to the piss-poor quality of education and all the manosphere propaganda over the last several years. It's going to continue to get worse for a very long time before it gets better.
Don't underestimate how stupid gen z is.
We're not even close to that though. Things would have to get far worse in the US for that to even begin to happen . The full third of eligible voters who didn't vote in November for the most part still wouldn't if an election were held today.
Yeah that's the unfortunate truth. We can argue all day long about what the best way forward is, but most people do not care unless they are actively being hurt right this moment. And that's ignoring the fact that there is an absurd amount of enthusiastic support for Trump among our neighbors.
I think we have a situation where what used to be "middle class" paths through life, like a high school educated father working a manufacturing job to support a wife and 2.3 kids, are now the "you can probably keep yourself alive if you keep on your employers good side" working poor that feel like indentured slaves.
Filling the actual middle class slot are the highly educated and specialized workers. Like in my case, I am a single income earner for my family and we own our single family home. But, I have three degrees (two STEM) with 20 years of experience and live in a blue collar neighborhood in a house that's older than me. And we bought the place over 15 years ago.
Then I guess the upper middle class is reserved for your medical specialists, successful business owners, and corporate drones who stumbled their way up to the c-suite.
And somehow, the government and corporations have convinced them all to punch down.