No Stupid Questions

Bread and circuses.

Though that's a little antiquated, so now it's "high fructose corn syrup and superbowl".

Brainwashing from the moment they were born

I'm mad, but what? Once we pull out the guillotines there's no going back, so right now I'm hoping that checks and balances thing starts to kick in soon.

Because a third of Americans are uninformed, another third is misinformed and thinks the current administration is in line with their goals, the other third is being gaslit by the other 2/3s that this is normal... And for those not buying the gaslighting, they are ignored and still too small of a group to do much.

The majority aren’t at the point where they are willing to sacrifice everything yet. They have families, homes, food, friends. Currently the administration hasn’t taken away enough from enough people to get it really going. It will be coming though. People just haven’t felt the affects yet

Republicans have majority control over the media. They don't know what's happening because their news doesn't cover it.

I'm pissed off. I don't know what I'm supposed to do about it. If there's a protest near me I'll join it. If I see somebody getting fucked with by a Nazi I'll step in but I have responsibilities and a job and can't really afford to travel. So until shit really kicks off I'm kind of stuck in this state where I can't do anything.

30 years of watching progressive movements flounder and civil action lead to absolutely zero substantial changes has given me a defeatist attitude. What good is getting mad? It's not like it will change anything.

Most of my countrymen are very, very fucking stupid.

I dunno, they seem to be mad. It's just most of them are wrong about who they should be mad at and why

I'm not even American and I'm mad. Most of what I've heard from Americans is that they're mad.

I think internet in general specifically social media. It allows you to vent your frustrations without doing actual damage. It's also easy to disconnect compared to marching to the streets.

I'm not American, but from what I can see, its mostly:

• Apathy
• Not being clued in
• Beliving nothing can be done

I'm mad as fuck. Get me one (or more) of those traitorous bastards within arm's reach and they'll find out precisely how mad.

Nothing. Everyone I know is very mad about it. The people who aren't mad about it aren't mad because they're being lied to and told that all their racism, homophobia, xenophobia and just plain mean spiritedness is somehow normal and good.

I assure you that anyone who isn't a monster is very unhappy about the whole situation

Who tf says we're not mad? We're fucking furious.

Those of us who are extremely upset about the state of our country are constantly wondering WTF is wrong with the other ones. I think a large part of it is a slow, progressive dumbing down by our growing addiction to entertainment and convenience. We've become a nation of 13-year-olds who think mom is a bitch for making us go to the dentist.

We all are. The left and the right.

We have all been told from different sources who or what to be mad about.

Some were so mad about contrived issues they voted in someone who campaigned on destroying the federal government.

Others are pissed off that that person who was voted in is destroying the federal government.

The outrage machine literally is why the fascist pig is in the Whitehouse in the first place.

What you might be asking is why we aren't rioting in the streets. Just know that some of us are 4 times as far from our countries capital as London is from Berlin. In a blue state, who would I be protesting to? The people who already agree with me?

There’s plenty that are mad.

Just that the minority that are happy about it and the billionaires that own all forms of media keep sweeping that fact under the rug. Or they put a question mark at the end of it. Are Americans all that upset about trump? How much damage is trump really doing? And then they softball the response to questions like that with “who really knows what the damage will be? when it’s objective what the results are and the future holds.

Busy with day to day affairs, gotta pay rent/mortgage/medical bills, gotta feed the family, gotta keep working, can't take risks, ...

What makes you think we are not mad?

Was reading r/conservative to see what's on their minds regarding the events of late, and they are in there celebrating.

Bread and circuses

everyone I know is mad. disgusted. ashamed of our country and it's election systems that allow this incompetent clown show to destroy our democracy.

meanwhile joe joe could have had the cia murder trump et al, and probably gotten away with it considering the supreme court's bullshit.

strange thing to wish had happened.

Lack of organization. We're many of us individually mad, but there is no organization.

Say what you will but Jan 6th and then some is what we should be doing, but we aren't.

All I'm doing now is hoarding ammunition and periodically buying more guns because I 1000% believe we're going to see war soon.

I'm also donating money to charities, helping people in my community that are struggling, and telling fascists to fuck off.

Gaslighting?

Fatigue.

We're too distracted by struggling to survive our small local daily struggles to even SEE the big picture.

If there's a time bomb in the room ticking down before your eyes, yeah that's a big deal. If, in that same room, you're also being attacked by a pack of rabid dogs though, chances are you've stuck a pin in the whole "what about the bomb" thing.

And if there's a sniper outside the room preparing to shoot you without even a moment's notice that you KNOW is there and that you can't even see AS WELL, all you can hope for us that all the moving around you're doing to avoid being dragged down and torn apart by the rabid dogs will throw off their shots.

They have BLINDED US WITH TRAUMA.

Normal people are fighting for their lives on a daily basis JUST contending with their landlords, their bosses, their financial institutions, their utility expenses, their groceries. They don't see the ways in which these challenges are driven by the federal government's policies on a national scale.

What makes you think we aren’t mad?

The sitting around, waiting for “someone” to stop the madness, instead of organizing …fucking 10 years ago.

The majority of people votes for this that is why. The no voters just wanted a clean conscious but they still voted for this.

Everyone is mad and everyone can't agree why were mad so now were more mad.