What do you do when people don't care?
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You don't.
A large swath of Americans have made it clear they don't care to pay attention and won't care until it personally affects them.
So we're simply going to have to watch our nation decline until the majority of Americans have personally been affected. Then we'll begin a long, difficult path to gaining back what we lost, just to get back to where we were before the decline happened. Then we'll be happy to be back in the same shitty situation we were before and probably let things slide back into a decline again.
Americans are stupid. And there's nothing you can do to change that.
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Trump won and the amount of people here throwing the Nazi word around still don’t realise how self defeating they are.
Sometimes you have to call Nazis Nazis. And people who support Nazis are Nazis. And sometimes you can't deprogram a Nazi.
These aren't victims. They're intentionally malicious people.
I have the urge to help victims. I have another urge entirely in regards to Nazis.
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Look for the helpers.
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You do understand that it's possible to oppose genocide on principle wherever it happens and to still be able think it's alarming when it escalates further, right?
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I agree with your analysis of Trump's surprising victory. His fellow republicans didn't expect it because they don't understand his charisma. I don't think he does either, he just thinks he's irresistible and that his critics are irrational. But no one in his party will be next in line. Being VP won't give bestow that on Vance, except procedurally if Trump croaks in office. No Republican all-star has Trump's weird Pied Piper quality, and he will never anoint a direct successor because that's not in his personality. Trump gives people his blessings to help them into subordinate positions, and that's all. When he's gone I think it will be a wild scramble, every man for himself - which with any luck will disorganize the party enough for a well chosen Democrat to win the next election.
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Okay Rambo, have fun stormin' da kessel.
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You are entirely missing the point.
Being surprised the average American is fully on board with concentration camps and genocide should not come as a surprise anymore.
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If the concentration camps were started during the Obama administration and (nobody cared), then were operated during the first Trump admin and (the only caring-concern was performative) then they continued to operate under the Biden admin (while still nobody cared) then why would people suddenly start caring now?
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Yeah okay, I get that.
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exclusively cishet white population who are financially well off.
...there's your problem.
Why would they care? At worst they're unaffected. At best they're benefitting. What is their impetus for change?
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You’d like to think some sort of empathy, compassion and solidarity at the very least.
But I guess those are traits the US has very effectively diminished from generation to generation.
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call them american
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The moderate right provide a platform for the far right but I don't think that makes them default Nazi's.
Honestly, your point of view is no better than the "all Muslims are terrorists" mantra and people like you will sleep walk in to another four years of Republican rule.
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Where's the profit in empathy?
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I dont want to be another i-dont-care-ican
What are we gonna do Franco, Franco Un-American^(franco ^unamerican ^- ^NOFX)
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I remember watching a congress inquiry or something into something like student debt or subsidies (iirc) where comedian/tv personality Hasan Minaj was included in the panel. He was a bit out of place next to the usual gov office types cracking jokes half the time (although never inappropriate) and serious the other half and i think someone even noted his presence there being strange. I forget if it was someone in the video or just a comment below the video but they pointed out that they wouldn't have even been watching this legislation discussion if it wasnt for him and his occasional humorous answers or comments and i realised i wouldnt be watching either. Im not even american.
If comedy is the gravy you need to put on some veggies to make them more palatable for people to consume them then by all means, pour that shit on and get people interested and engaged with the issues at hand.
The every day person doesnt have to agree or change their mind, they just need to be aware and informed so when it comes the time to vote or support a choice they are given then they at least have some further knowledge beyond 'my political team is going this way so i suppose ill do that'.
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The US was doomed from the start, it might have been better to let every state be it’s own country. We would probably see some wars with the more extreme places/states of the country.
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Yeah and especially when they created a system that doesn’t even allow you to really vote for somebody who you believe in.
The US is a timebomb which is going to explode.
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Yeah you are right, but US politics doesn’t allow for nuances. People aren’t left or right or conservative or progressive. They will have bieves that suit a certain direction on the politic spectrum, but people can have opinions regarding different topics all across the eniter spectrum.
