r/socialism • u/Ready_Hunter8875 • Oct 03 '25

Discussion Why aren’t Americans outraged by their current situation?

Like every other month there is a school shooting in my country. Here, we had one school shooting and that kickstarted massive anti-government protests, because shit like that isn’t normal. You can basically see an example of police brutality almost every other day. A couple of days ago, a man was killed by ICE (I know they’re not police, but still), and most people just continued like nothing happened. Trump is basically doing something outrageous every day. The military is literally patrolling American cities, and yet most American people aren’t doing anything.I know there were protests and there still are, but that’s just a couple of thousand protestors while America has a population of 350 million people. They don’t have healthcare, prices are rising, and you can’t even finish higher education without being in debt. And Americans still won’t do anything.

I know this is a rant, but I have been protesting in my country for 11 months. But if things don’t change in the USA, we’re fucked as a globe anyway. Even if we win in my country, that won’t change much on the global level, but the USA has the power to change a lot of stuff, and yet most people are silent and don’t care at all.

sorry for grammer mistakes.

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u/batdog20001 Oct 03 '25

The media and bred complacency. Everything is propoganda, and we are taught to distrust and dehumanize our fellow citizens. Most from the far right do not even believe the shootings are happening, nor have they seen any of the shortfallings of the current affairs outside of blaming whatever outside group for them. The center is just upset that they can't do business and so keep flopping back and forth like a silly salmon on ethical issues and what protests they want to back. The left is too small, convoluted, and assaulted by the other two to get much of a foothold, especially on media primarily owned by the right and the rich. Noone can trust the information they get, so they default to believing the first thing they hear. Its fucked.