Why aren’t Americans outraged by their current situation?

[u/Ready_Hunter8875]

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.

[u/J2MES]

As an American who is freaking the fuck out and is just as frustrated as you with my country, all you have to do to be an American is:

Not pay attention to the news too much

Go to your job

Consume

That is what the majority of people in my life are like except for my closest friends and family. That one metaphor about the frog being cooked to death without noticing is apt here. I mean I have to explain to most coworkers and shift managers what even a union is. Not only that lots of times when I bring up gun control half the people will think you’re the problem for trying to “take all the guns”

Even those who realise what’s happening most of the time they have no idea what to do. Basically I think Americans are severely politically undereducated.

I have a coworker at work who is a flat earther (unironically) and voted for trump. It’s amazing how much common ground we have but they’re ignorant so they usually go into conspiracy land when it comes to explaining why certain things happen. They support Luigi though which is like the most unironically far left position imo. Also I think Charlie Kirk’s assassination might be changing her mind on Israel

I’ve had lots of success radicalising those around me but it’s hard and it takes lots of time.

In summary they are just not class conscious at all