do most americans believe that their ruling class ever gave a shit about them ?
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Seems like a lot of Americans genuinely believe they live in a democracy.
Worse, it's the Temporarily embarrassed billionaire -Most Americans think they are or will one day be apart of the top 10% of the top 1%. They don't get that upward socioeconomic mobility has stalled out in the past twenty years.
Yeah there's a lot of that going on too.
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Seriously, I think they have a huge sense of entitlement but can't understand they've done nothing to earn it. Culturally they get bombarded with USA USA USA is number one. They high five themselves and then stop looking at the world, news. They font notice Asia working hard to improve their economies, quality life, education, inventing tech or mastering existing tech. Their parents had a good life so they should too. Not realizing the boomers prospered because the rest of the world had been bombed to shit in WW2, while the US economy never lost a building. Well Europe rebuilt, communism died, China settled their internal issues (mostly) and they all are building new things. While american investors look for more return on their investments. That USA USA chant was the wool being pulled over their eyes
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At this point its just pathetic. And frustrating to watch.
Are americans waking up and smelling the shit in their bed?
Unfortunately, I expect nothing to come from this and americans to continue not learning their lesson.
Its up to you.
Unfortunately the reality is, that even though there is a lot of implied criminal activity on display with the Epstein files...there still isn't a lot of hard evidence. Without that, you aren't likely to get a conviction in court.
Someone mentioning a crime in an email, doesn't count as proof that a crime occurred. It just points you in the direction you should investigate further. If you still can't find any actual evidence to back up that allegation, then you still have no case.
the high bar of proof is not an accident since it keeps lets the oligarchs go free.
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Maybe that's why so much is blacked out. To hide evidence
The only hard evidence you need is that these people are ultra rich and control the world. Everything else is just pus leaking from their souls.
Israel government is genocidal and pedophile?
yes. next question.
Problem is, they'll blame it all on trump and foreign influence. Russian, Israeli, doesn't matter. It'll just be "bad actors", not "terrible system"
I think a lot of it comes down to the foundational mythology of the US. The whole shining city on a hill, the idea of American exceptionalism, and the reverence for the Constitution are all designed to cultivate the belief that the US is the Platonic ideal of human society, and that nothing better is possible.
So when people see the social contract start to fray, their gut reaction isn’t to question the system itself. Instead, they look for nefarious outside agents who are trying to undermine the perfect society the US is supposed to be. That’s why the narrative of Trump being a Russian puppet was so popular. It’s easier for people to accept that he’s an agent of a hostile nation hellbent on destroying America out of envy, than to see him for what he is: an opportunist who is a direct product of the system unraveling from within.
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