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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere are probably a lot of people who have no clue what is going on.
They watch game shows and soap operas, no news. In fact, they strenuously avoid it because its too hard. They will notice when prices go up but they wont know why. They don't vote because they don't think it matters.
This is America.
Traildogbob
(10,480 posts)Jimmy Kimmels street interviews. Slugs are more aware of the shit coming.
The dumbest species on the planet. Oblivious to anything.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,834 posts)... so that we get Civics back in the schools. SERIOUSLY!
SheltieLover
(61,787 posts)I spent yesterday running errands and informing complete strangers that our country is under seige by slobby's handler.
The looks I got were priceless and would be funny if this weren't so serious. I sent people to various websites to verify & what seemed to really get their attention was when I would tell them "Freeze your credit!"
Absolutely criminal failure to report of pertinent news, imo. Why do we have to look over the pond to get real news about our country?
Irish_Dem
(62,851 posts)Even some smart Dems who blithely think that someone will swat down Trump and Musk.
Certainly there is some easy remedy and of course Trump and Musk will have some guardrails
and back down.
So we have ignorant and uninformed people and those who engage in magical thinking
and no understanding how psychopaths and fascists operate.
Walleye
(37,344 posts)And making politics so distasteful, that nobody wants to participate
SoCal Roomba
(59 posts)This has been in the works for awhile, read Curtis Yarvins Substack and see it for yourself.
https://nd8ed.substack.com/p/curtsyarvn?utm_medium=ios
orangecrush
(22,866 posts)After the shit has hit the fan.
We may see a massive wake up call.
Evolve Dammit
(19,720 posts)orangecrush
(22,866 posts)IcyPeas
(23,098 posts)And AM radio?
Boomerproud
(8,569 posts)Do they spend 100% of their time defending the sludge? I know DUers post what Eloon has to say on the 1000 radio podcasts he's on daily. What is he on? Never stops.
Cirsium
(1,590 posts)Hardly anyone is out of the reach of the 24/7 right wing media propaganda.
That is America.
LuvLoogie
(7,714 posts)then kidnap and imprison people to do your work
Then to tell your populace of your Manifest Destiny heroism
As long as there is a McDs on the corner and a new season of your favorite show on the tube
They'll let you keep on doing what your doing in the name of god
Karasu
(496 posts)uninformed as fuck. Their lives evolve entirely around work to the point that they really don't think let alone care about much of anything else.
Aussie105
(6,658 posts)kicked in the guts when the current situation affects them in practical ways.
Some mental activity may be detected when they discover prices are on the up and up.
Becoming uncomfortable is a great brain stimulant.
The question 'why is it so?' will bounce inside their heads, and some conclusions may be forthcoming.
How did a large part of the American population get to be like this?
Drugs?
Something in the water?
The education system?
The pervasive propaganda media that tells them to just consume, and not think?
mokeyz
(63 posts)and more -
spooky3
(36,824 posts)A big reason, in answer to your question.
Oopsie Daisy
(5,085 posts)* that we frequently hear from a certain segment who relate closely and sympathize with folks like Nina Turner, Michael Moore, Ralph Nader, Brihana Joy Gray, Cornell West, Jill Stein, Bill Maher, Susan Sarandon, et al. These are the ones who are angry at the Democratic party (for various reasons) and would rather burn it down and give the win to the GOP. Their message definitely suppresses the vote and support for Democrats.
BumRushDaShow
(146,554 posts)Louisiana snake - James Carville to that list.
Oopsie Daisy
(5,085 posts)You're right.
LilElf70
(680 posts)And they are all magat republicants.
Evolve Dammit
(19,720 posts)yowzayowzayowza
(7,035 posts)and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
IronLionZion
(47,361 posts)those foreigners keep raising the prices higher because they're foreign like that. Elon Musk is finding so many efficiencies in government. Where's my Social Security check this month?
ancianita
(39,414 posts)DeeDeeNY
(3,632 posts)my son attended one of Elizabeth Warren's speeches when she was in NY and stayed afterward to take a selfie with her. I proudly showed that picture to someone I knew, and she looked at it blankly and asked who the woman with my son was!!! She honestly didn't know of Elizabeth Warren. But she could identify all the winners of reality shows.
Iggo
(48,688 posts)JustAnotherGen
(34,222 posts)Until Musk interrupts all television and someho, streaming services to advise them he's now taken control.
I'd say during the Superbowl.
summer_in_TX
(3,415 posts)But they are the exact ones, especially the Republicans, who need to know. Elon has breached the US Treasury and has access to their data? Making them aware, and very rapidly, is what Heather Cox Richardson is calling for. That with all of us calling our federal and state representatives demanding to know WTAF?
Heather Cox Richardson
Politics Chat: February 22, 2025
It's doable, but can we overcome our inertia, our excuses for not doing that out of social fear? Can we?
Qutzupalotl
(15,185 posts)Twenty years later, we're in deep shit. Nobody understands civics or history, but they know how to take a test in 2005.
Martin Eden
(13,741 posts)Stating that this is the CRIME OF THE CENTURY is an understatement.