Because Biden didn’t round up Trump and all of his henchmen immediately after being sworn in, and ship them to Gitmo for extensive interrogation about their treason with Russia, and corruption.
USA has always been scared of applying real consequences for fear of losing popular support. Jefferson and Adams knew slavery was wrong. Adams knew it was wrong and abhorred it. But couldn’t do anything because of that reason and the need unite the States of a new nation. Same after the Civil War, healing a fractured nation and all that. Even leading to the Civil War there were Missouri and 1850 Compromises. And it goes on and on. United States of Compromise.
This is absolutely a cultural issue which promotes and encourages extreme individualism. It’s the land of opportunity, which has been translated into “if you aren’t successful, it’s your own fault for not trying hard enough”. It’s baked into every corner of the mentality. It’s, “Own a gun to protect yourself”, not, “fund initiatives to reduce crime and provide for all”.
Even some of the most well educated people within this culture hold a deep belief that if you are not doing well it’s a “you” problem, and any suggestion of collective (social) assistance to raise the standard for all is immediately labeled as communism and derided.
Very hard to combat this thinking when it’s so ingrained.
Me? Nothing. Best I have is an air gun and a few nail guns. Improvised or bladed weaponry, probably. Especially with the Gravy Seals being the number one offenders as of late, I’d go down swinging, even if impotently.
There are actually some pretty intelligent conservatives, but oligarchs intentionally funnel more money to dumb right wingers to afford bigger and louder megaphones.
Thomas Sowell and Roger Scruton are pretty okay IMO. They make sense even if you don’t fully agree. I am tempted to include David Frumm, who is an anti-Trump neoconservative, but he was an adviser to Bush Jr administration and therefore complicit to the invasion of Iraq and financial crisis, so I can’t give him more respect as I would have liked.
But overall this is my point exactly if none of you can think of respectable enough conservatives. The intelligent ones are buried by the more deranged pseudointellectual right wingers because the latter are deliberately given more voice by vested interests to intentionally dumb down people.
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Why does America breed so many shit cunts?
Because we didn’t punish the Confederate traitors hard enough.
Because Biden didn’t round up Trump and all of his henchmen immediately after being sworn in, and ship them to Gitmo for extensive interrogation about their treason with Russia, and corruption.
USA has always been scared of applying real consequences for fear of losing popular support. Jefferson and Adams knew slavery was wrong. Adams knew it was wrong and abhorred it. But couldn’t do anything because of that reason and the need unite the States of a new nation. Same after the Civil War, healing a fractured nation and all that. Even leading to the Civil War there were Missouri and 1850 Compromises. And it goes on and on. United States of Compromise.
But that would have been lead to even more consequences from the donors, who pretty much treated the democrats as useful idiots at best.
That too
This is absolutely a cultural issue which promotes and encourages extreme individualism. It’s the land of opportunity, which has been translated into “if you aren’t successful, it’s your own fault for not trying hard enough”. It’s baked into every corner of the mentality. It’s, “Own a gun to protect yourself”, not, “fund initiatives to reduce crime and provide for all”.
Even some of the most well educated people within this culture hold a deep belief that if you are not doing well it’s a “you” problem, and any suggestion of collective (social) assistance to raise the standard for all is immediately labeled as communism and derided.
Very hard to combat this thinking when it’s so ingrained.
To be fair, owning a way to defend yourself is a good plan right now, considering the current regime.
The hell are you really going to do with it if They come tho
Me? Nothing. Best I have is an air gun and a few nail guns. Improvised or bladed weaponry, probably. Especially with the Gravy Seals being the number one offenders as of late, I’d go down swinging, even if impotently.
because they’re trailing most developed nations in education
Because the rest of the world sent their shit cunts here.
There are actually some pretty intelligent conservatives, but oligarchs intentionally funnel more money to dumb right wingers to afford bigger and louder megaphones.
citation needed on the intelligent conservatives thing.
Thomas Sowell and Roger Scruton are pretty okay IMO. They make sense even if you don’t fully agree. I am tempted to include David Frumm, who is an anti-Trump neoconservative, but he was an adviser to Bush Jr administration and therefore complicit to the invasion of Iraq and financial crisis, so I can’t give him more respect as I would have liked.
But overall this is my point exactly if none of you can think of respectable enough conservatives. The intelligent ones are buried by the more deranged pseudointellectual right wingers because the latter are deliberately given more voice by vested interests to intentionally dumb down people.