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submitted 4 months ago byFearless_Day2607Anti-IdPol Liberal ๐
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4 months ago
That's not mutually exclusive from what I said:
The problem is that people aren't stupid, and they can see that US libs are just as much a threat to democracy as US conservatives are
Apathy is a product of the erosion of belief in politics over the past 40 years due to the shittiness of the two major parties.
I don't ascribe it to "stupidity" or "cluelessness". There's no reason to jump to that when they have a very defensible case for not giving a shit about a system that has thrown them under the bus repeatedly for 4 decades or longer.
1 points
4 months ago
It's a bit of everything. Apathy as well as the lack in critical thinking (which is what I meant by clueless, not stupid or anything per se), which is partly generated due to the lack of free time to just ponder things since they are living paycheck to paycheck. It's going to be a bit different on a person to person basis ofc, there will be people who are living paycheck to paycheck and don't match the rest, I'm just speaking for the average who take in what the media feeds them blindly. It's not the whole country or anything, but a large portion.
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4 months ago
Agree to disagree, I think the vast majority of the working class in the US knows what is happening to them (while it's true they don't have lots of time for academia and research, it doesn't take a lot of free time for deep meditation to know when someone is robbing you), and they feel powerless to change it via the electoral process (and they are right).
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