Are Americans a Broken People?
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 03:15
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Do Americans have a broken election system
Maybe you vote Democrat maybe vote Republican maybe you 'throw away' your vote to a third party
but the glitches and delay and confused counts seem like a collection of ridiculous
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
In a word, yes. But if it is any consolation, you are not alone.
Social media has completely fucked us all. It feeds disinformation, extremism and polarisation.
Maybe so but once in a while I might check whats happening in Ukraine not sure why its done, maybe some of us do it to balance the other propaganda and madness from the traditional newspaper or tv?
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The problem is that Americans have some addictions and a few ideological weaknesses.
Americans were addicted to radio, TV, and movies. Now they're addicted to the internet. Social media. All specifically geared to push that dopamine button over and over
Once you've corraled people into a certain form of communication, you can propagandize them all you want. (I take your point about having books.)
The second problem is that Americans are ahistorical. History is seen as an anchor, a shackle, not as a source of enlightenment.
But at this point I could say the same of the EU. They seem to be even more propagandized than we are.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Well.. I can count on one hand the amount of TV shows or movies I've watched in 2022, and that includes even 5 minutes of any local or cable news shows.
I don't have a cell phone.
Besides chatting here, I only do Twitter to troll Democrat politicians, but that's boring because I don't have a blue checkmark and they never see any tweets from the plebs without one.
People need to cut the fucking cords from their brains.
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I'm a Democrat now. Let's erase history, burn everything down and start over. China's going to end up owning everything anyways.
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in it for the monye?
Rush Limbaugh
Not broken just cartoonish?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
But at this point I could say the same of the EU. They seem to be even more propagandized than we are.
EU is worse because they have amped the propaganda, including, brotherhood, sisterhood, unity-currency, fairness, social morality, unite all the member states, common goals respected...for a while it woos its almost seductive...but its a subtle marxist hive mind, after a while you start to move across the EU and you hear the same buzz words and propaganda repeat, they sound nice-ish but often are used to trap financially and for more control
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When people become broken, they cannot act on truths of injustice. Furthermore, when people have become broken, more truths about how they have been victimized can lead to shame about how they have allowed it. And shame, like fear, is one more way we become even more psychologically broken.
You mean Russia don't you comrade. Don't you mean is Russia a broken country? Because yes comrade signym, it surely is.
Russia is about as broken as a country can get.
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Quote:All the Way to Midnight
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The problem is that Americans have some addictions and a few ideological weaknesses.
Americans were addicted to radio, TV, and movies. Now they're addicted to the internet. Social media. All specifically geared to push that dopamine button over and over
Once you've corraled people into a certain form of communication, you can propagandize them all you want. (I take your point about having books.)
The second problem is that Americans are ahistorical. History is seen as an anchor, a shackle, not as a source of enlightenment.
But at this point I could say the same of the EU. They seem to be even more propagandized than we are.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Boomers fueled the MAGA movement and now the bell curve is descending.
The MAGA movement, based on aging white boomer victimhood is a bell curve. That bell curve has peaked for the simple reason that boomers, of which I am one, are dying off. We are the MAGA movement. How we got here is a combination of our own disconnection and the vulnerability which that created to decades of carefully crafted manipulation.
Boomers were wholly unprepared for the blunt manipulations of Fox News, in bundled cable of the 90s. White boomers never faced the great depression, or a world war, yet we were particularly susceptible to the idea that we were victims of hardships. In part because of the restless disconnection of our gated community lives we bought fragile white victimhood hook, line and sinker.
After lifetimes of leaning into consumerism and mass consumption we boomers woke up to find ourselves angry and reactive to our own disconnection. Maybe a bigger SUV would help? Maybe a third marriage? That sense of disconnection was a warning, an inflection point. Some of us self reflected. Took stock. But many more of us doubled down on our nagging sense of victimhood. “Whatever the fuck is wrong here, it must be someone else’s fault. Women. Immigrants. Black people.” And Fox News was there to lovingly encourage our blind entitlement. To sell us our own failed white fragility.
The MAGA bell curve peaked as we moved into retirement, staring blankly at our own mortality. Because we had bought into the decades long drumbeat of individualism sold to us by a GOP bent on eliminating social safety nets, we sought validation in class and status and so ended up without community.
Retirement is when a strange unnamed panic really set in for boomers. No longer able to rely on the stale connection of surface level workplace relationships, we were left sitting alone in our easy chairs staring at the Tucker Carlsons of the Fox News rabbit hole. Again, it was an inflection point for some of us.
Some boomers said, “Maybe this creeping anxiety is my fault. Maybe this disconnection from my kids, my community, from the world right outside my door is my fault.” Some of us went looking for basic human connection. We realized we had been tricked into choosing disconnection. But so many more of us just got angrier.
Trump is the ongoing final act of angry white boomers. No longer did we have to coyly perform the wink wink of coded racist language about welfare queens and urban crime. We were liberated to march with Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, our creeping panic weaponized into authoritarian rage.
There is a fundamental dynamic at play in boomers who are all in on QAnon and MAGA. Each of us saw the off-ramps. We saw the moments in our relatively easy lives when we could’ve made a different choice, moved toward human connection. What’s creeping up on us is now is how late it has become.
For MAGA boomers to admit now, at this terribly late date, that all the white privilege and rage in the world isn’t calming our loneliness or our growing panic, means looking back on 70 years or more and admitting we fell prey to our most selfish, ugly, bullying instincts.
You want to talk terrifying? It is the archetypal Dickens momen
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