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ForestDi56's avatar

Most folks don’t know what else to do. The problem is too daunting to deal with so they don’t. 🤷‍♀️

Michelle Levy's avatar

I’ve been saying similar. When the establishment crumbles, how will we weather the chaos if we’re not self-sufficient? And what will we replace be broken systems with??

Party of 1's avatar

Good question and well put, John. lol.

Leslie L Allen's avatar

Many of us don't trust a word our government says. I trust results. When I see action and the result is easier on my wallet, my culture and my day-to-day life, *that's* what I trust. I voted for Trump three times, but it's not because I would trust him to water my houseplants for a single day if I was out of town. I wouldn't. It's because his economy and the reflection of his policies in my community make things better for me and my family. He's the only politician in my lifetime who's made campaign promises he actually kept. I didn't trust Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden or even Reagan and I voted for Reagan. I don't like nor trust Trump either. He's done things I really don't like. Real ID, Palentir and Flock Security come to mind. There's old saying my grandfather used to use. "Trust your government, said no Founding Father ever."

I think that's *very* good advice.

Brandy's avatar

When the Covid response was implemented, I could tell instantly that the health experts were lying. Over time, evidence would slowly leak out that they were indeed wrong (lying). It kept happening over and over and over. The lies just kept rolling out and the evidence that showed they were lying was delayed by about two or three months.

2 weeks to flatten the curve, millions will die, 3% mortality rate, six feet, no mask/mask/double mask, no early treatments, safe and effective, winter of death, etc.

In my naïveté, every time a lie was debunked, I kept thinking, “well, the gig is up, now everyone will know that they were lying or flat out wrong and the people are going to stop listening to the public health officials“. Boy was I wrong. So, so, wrong.

Same thing happened with the Ukrainian/Russian war.

And now the same exact thing with Trump. He has broken every significant campaign promise and is ACTIVELY PROTECTING PEDOFILES!! And he is kidnapping and killing foreign leaders. And granting complete liability protection to companies that poison our food. And funding genocide. And spending our nation into oblivion.

I thought maga voters would see that they had been hoodwinked. Again, so naive.

I don’t know how to help people snap out of this.

Mike McAdams's avatar

Most people are sheep and politicians are wolves.

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAs. . .'s avatar

True, but even sheep have enough sense & enough survival instinct to run if chased by wolves.

Leslie L Allen's avatar

We need more sheep dogs.

taxpayer's avatar

It's a kakistocracy. We don't trust them, but what trustworthy people are capable of getting themselves in power?

Christine's avatar

You've answered your own question in the wording of your question - why "American people"? The problems we are currently confronting apply to the whole of humanity, not one subset of humanity. What keeps Americans so obedient to their government is nationalism - Americans are the best so of course your government must be the best. As soon as you stop trusting your government, you can no longer claim to be the biggest, the best, the holiest, and so perfect that you can and should impose your will on the rest of the world. Not every nation has the same level of hubris as America, but every nation has its own form of national pride it has to defend.

Vince Procopio's avatar

Arguing from effect to cause, it is quite apparent to me that any system of governance that produces our current slate of psychopathic leaders is dysfunctional.

We don’t seem to learn from history. Centralized power always leads to eventual abuse. Wars are expensive and would never occur absent the coercively derived resources of government. Replacing current leaders doesn’t provide a permanent solution when the problem is structural.

David Brown's avatar

Hanlon’s Razor is an adage stating: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" Every political leader knows his job is to protect the people who voted him into office while improving their circumstances. It is not the system of governance that produces psychopathic leaders. Dictators can be benign and elected leaders can turn out to behave badly.

We need political leaders to get things done. If you don't approve of their decisions, help them correct their mistakes. After all, politics is not a spectator sport>

Mike Crowley's avatar

I honestly ask. What choice do we have? We can question, doubt and even hate them. Oh that's right we can vote. How's THAT going? Really, how can you ask such a question.

H8SBAD's avatar

Americans are so gullible that the warmongers don’t even have to change the script. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Vietnam, the propaganda is unchanging .

mejbcart's avatar
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'seeing is believing' thus according to this post the 'american suckers' seems to be blind literally.

Btw. covid genetically modifying jabs left 4,246 blind (of all sorts), and this is indeed a hammer, 51 victims experienced a 'Eye colour change', some of this not the usual ones, like for example during hepatitis (yellow) or blood vessel rapture (red), but TOTALLY DIFFERENT color, like a change from brown to blue!!!

Anything like that can be done ONLY via a chemical reaction directly on the genes defining the eyes color, a gene therapy mildly speaking!!! Still everyone is thinking/writing about 'vaccines'.

What a blind' American suckers'. Next part of this comment is coming...

grahamlyons's avatar

The Menon Lescaux story reminds me of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage.

RLM's avatar

OK, you convince us. BUT who are the righteous few in govt. you do believe?

Karen T Foust's avatar

Amen. How sad is the situation in our nation. It is very difficult to find one member of our government who tells the truth consistently. Help us Lord! Deliver us from evil!

andy's avatar

Passion sounds better than compulsion but it's not the same thing.

Addiction is compulsion, not passion.

Rhett Butler was passionate & could also say, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

AwakeNotWoke's avatar

Basically, Americans are dumb, dumb as dogshit. This is largely because of dysgenics. Americans were bred to be dumb. In cross-national mean IQ comparisons, Americans are consistently outperformed by Communists and East Asians, including some from the third world.

Americans lead the world in scores narcissism inventories but confuse this with IQ.

James DelloRusso's avatar

Sorry Awake, I gotta dissgree. It's not genetics, it' the environment. The public school system has been failing to teach anything substantial for years, deliberately creating non-thinking passive sheep, passing on propaganda and progressive dogma, done by treasonous teachers' unions, and it's worked well for 50-60 years.

AwakeNotWoke's avatar

You have a point but the US breeds Democrats. Democrats try to abort themselves and the GOP says: "No, we need more Democrats in the gene pool.and voting. More Democrats will make America smarter."