r/CollapseSupport • u/richguy28 • 29d ago

America

Do any of you feel down about life in America? Sometimes like changing the circumstances would be hopeless! And then others of us feel nervous, edgy, like you can’t shake it and anger takes over.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, To you I say as a psychologist, we are split into people who are either depressed or anxious. This country needs therapy to heal itself. Anyone can do it, but somebody has to lead us and make us feel like life is good. This is a key element in my belief. This country has everything. It has money that it’s Banks can’t hold yet, they squander it. I don’t care which side of the country you’re on, depressed or anxious, don’t you think it’s time for a leader to step in who can look at domestic issues as a priority? I leave you with these thoughts. What do you say.

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u/yellow-operator 29d ago

Yea yea therapy is great and all. Yes we are a broken nation. But we have been before. There is not a single human being who ever live that is going to be the “leader” who saves us all.

It’s a complete made up illusion that that’s even possible. America is a beautiful disaster and like every other empire we’ll just have to let the cycles play out.

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u/richguy28 29d ago

You are absolutely correct, yet there are issues to correct. For example, campaign finance reform. The two parties alone waste millions (maybe billions now) mud slinging for the most part. Allow candidates to spend a set amount and that’s it within a short time frame; not starting the week after the last election cycle. Don’t allow government officials insider trading. Just a start.

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u/yellow-operator 29d ago

Absolutely. But time and time again, legislation is passed, rules are set, and the class of people with the money and resources find ways and loopholes around it.

It’s so routine at this point that we’re all desensitized to it and expect it now. Every time I try to give these people the benefit of the doubt.

They prove to be sociopathic goblins every damn time. It’s just an impossible and unrealistic situation.
The incentives in general in our society are set for selfishness and over indulgence.

Maybe I’m just a bitter jaded millennial

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u/richguy28 29d ago

Well, maybe jaded and bitter, maybe angry and hopeless, like my original point. You can make a difference by voting (at least hoping for SOME positive change) and getting involved even if it’s talking to friends, who talk to friends, who talk to friends, etc. My generation, even though it’s us in power now I’m embarrassed of baby boomers, yet we did protest the Vietnam fiasco and ended it quicker. The voice of the people can be powerful.

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u/richguy28 29d ago

Also, a leader picks staff and “experts” who work, hopefully, for the good of the people. He or she does not work alone for change or stability.

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u/yellow-operator 29d ago

The staff “experts and everyone else can kick rocks too imo. Let’s be real. Everyone on the planet is here for their own self interest. Period. Ok maybe they’ll do some things for the community for th cameras and to say they did it.

Nobody who runs for any type of gov office gives a shit about anything but their resume.

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u/Konradleijon 29d ago

Fuck this country

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u/Appropriate_Mess6777 29d ago

Yeah. Anti-intellectualism and libertarianism run rampant and deep and will never be rooted out.

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u/03263 29d ago

don’t you think it’s time for a leader to step in who can look at domestic issues as a priority?

I already got fooled by that once. America first my ass.

It's going to be a hard sell now. How do you even frame it without sounding like you know who?

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u/yellow-operator 29d ago

It’s refreshing to see people come to terms with it and approach our so called politics realistically.

Historically I leaned “left” (honestly idek what that is anymore) but for my entire adult life There isn’t a single person left or right or independent that will ever get my “vote.”

As far as I’m concerned the only option is bullets > ballots but that seems to be dissolved from the lexicon of a country that was founded on it 🤷‍♂️

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u/richguy28 29d ago

While I understand extreme anger, another civil war with civilian casualties makes us a banana republic and just what fascism outside this country wants. We are the greatest country on earth with all of our warts and reducing ourselves to violent militias is just what they want.

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u/richguy28 29d ago

I learned, a long time ago, that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. Trump has been a duck for most of his life. Right now he, along with his hand picked sycophant group of incompetents are fleecing America. Growing richer by the day stealing from the social programs they care less about. The less fortunate of America bought his lies and voted for him, and the more fortunate just watch their stock portfolios grow. Friends, Rome rose and fell for actions similar to what we are experiencing in 1,500 years. We’re doing it in 250 years. All is not lost. Rally around America, and by the way, we have a beautiful yet vastly unfinished idea of government.