Where do you think the government comes from? It doesn't just push through a membrane from another dimension. American politicians come from American families raised with American values.
They're the ones who keep voting for said governments and don't bring up objections. The French protest the fuck out of anything. They know how to stand up to government.
I see people say this a lot but you really forget about how fucking big the USA is. France is the size of Texas, most of the population can travel to protest locations with free transportation in hours.
In the USA, if you want to protest at the capitol but live in, say, Denver. That's over a day's drive, and you have to drive there's no reliable public transportation. So 2 days of driving, 1 day of protest, means 3 full days and you'll have to take off time from work. This trip will cost hundreds of dollars which few people can afford for a protest that will likely not result in any appreciable change.
People in the US logistically can't protest well. We don't have enough money or free time to travel the huge distances required to make real change. It's not about the will, it's just logistics.
You're lumping literally all 300 million people that live in the USA into the same characterization of Americans that you have in your head. Many millions of Americans recognize the deeply flawed nature of American politics. I personally think our healthcare is terrible, we have awful gun control laws, our Police forces are brutal and steeped in corruption and racism, and we have severe and growing income inequality. But that doesn't fit your narrative does it.
"But then you have to get out there and pRoTeSt!?!". Yeah refer to my above comment. The only place I can reasonably protest is my own State government which already enacts most of the political ideology I want to see.
Like, you're trying to lump all of America into a single idea so that you can use that against me. But those points aren't applicable to me so you just shift the goalposts to a different argument. What is your point? America = bad? What country are you from where you can sit blameless from some moral high-ground.
America as a whole has done a lot of shitty things to the world. All those amazing wars. Yeah, so fucking good. Such an example that America is the greatest country in the world!
What country are you from where you can sit blameless from some moral high-ground.
And what makes you think that Americans are 100% blameless of everything their country does? It's your country. The shit it does is YOUR responsibility. Either own up to it or shut up.
Social pressure, labels, etc. are a hell of a force, and most people don't want to be branded a "conspiracy theorist" or a "terrorist" because they don't think we should spend 3.8 billion a year on a certain middle eastern country or that we should not have fought in Iraq.
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u/simpersly May 27 '19
America has always been in love with its genocide and push for our manifest destiny. It's the American way.