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The American public has been neutered.
The water has been slowly boiling us alive and we are too scared to give up our fake liberties to do anything about it.
Yes, we don't own anything any more, homeless rates are the highest we've seen in almost a decade, and most of us barely make enough to afford rent every month, but most americans are fine to be complicit with this as long as we get our endless supply of funko pops and doordash.
The individualistic culture of the US has me seriously doubt any real forms of organizing, and if there ever would be one, it would be extremely easy for bad actors to fracture any unity movement.
This is just from my perspective as an American who has seen my "friends", neighbors, and coworkers become more complicit every day.
That is so crazy, but I guess, this is what happens if a government doesn’t invest enough to get people educated..
No democracy without educated demos(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/demos)