America often appears as a dusty attic where things never move or change. It clings to old-fashioned stale ideas and policies, even as its people are surging forward into modernity. The rigidity of the American system of governance is so engrained that it takes decades and centuries for the US to adapt and move forward. All countries around the world have settled on a reasonable compromise between the needs of the individual and those of the collective, except in the US where issues fester on and on.
Abortion is one such issue. It is only in America that policies on abortion keep swinging back and forth between primitive traditional bigoted ultra-religiosity and modern progressive clarity on this issue.
It is only America that continues to reject the metric system and all other universal standards.
It is only America that refuses to uphold the principles it itself imposed on the world after WWII, namely to uphold the UN Charter on Human Rights and the Right to self-determination.
AI Query:
Significant divides between Americans and other countries exist primarily in values, individualism, religion, and foreign policy.
Individualism vs. Social Safety Nets: Americans strongly prioritize individual freedom and self-reliance, with 58% choosing freedom from state interference over state guarantees against need. In contrast, Europeans favor a stronger role for the state to ensure no one is in need, reflecting a more deterministic worldview where 68% in Germany and 54% in France believe success is determined by outside forces.
Religion and Social Values Religion is significantly more central to American life; 46% of Americans identify as Christian before being American, compared to fewer than 20% in Western Europe. Americans are also more socially conservative on issues like homosexuality and gender roles, though the gap has narrowed in recent years. Additionally, Americans place a higher premium on censorship-free media and offensive speech than their European counterparts.
Foreign Policy and Global Engagement. Europeans frequently view the U.S. as unilateralist, with majorities in France, Germany, and Italy believing the U.S. ignores allied interests. There is also a sharp divide on international engagement; while Europeans generally support multilateralism and UN approval for military action, Americans are more divided and historically more isolationist.
AI Query:
Significant divides between Americans and other countries exist primarily in values, individualism, religion, and foreign policy.
Individualism vs. Social Safety Nets: Americans strongly prioritize individual freedom and self-reliance, with 58% choosing freedom from state interference over state guarantees against need. In contrast, Europeans favor a stronger role for the state to ensure no one is in need, reflecting a more deterministic worldview where 68% in Germany and 54% in France believe success is determined by outside forces.
Religion and Social Values Religion is significantly more central to American life; 46% of Americans identify as Christian before being American, compared to fewer than 20% in Western Europe. Americans are also more socially conservative on issues like homosexuality and gender roles, though the gap has narrowed in recent years. Additionally, Americans place a higher premium on censorship-free media and offensive speech than their European counterparts.
Foreign Policy and Global Engagement. Europeans frequently view the U.S. as unilateralist, with majorities in France, Germany, and Italy believing the U.S. ignores allied interests. There is also a sharp divide on international engagement; while Europeans generally support multilateralism and UN approval for military action, Americans are more divided and historically more isolationist.
And now, four decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Bloc, there are republican idiots and pathetic propagandists that are disseminating rumors about the Democrats being Communists and Socialists. You see, the average American is a self-centered ignorant brainwashed dumb individual who is incapable to critical thinking and listens to lies and believes them when they are served to him on a platter of fake patriotism.
Among Republicans, 72% viewed capitalism favorably back in 2019, that's down to 61% today. And the percentage of Republicans who have a "strongly" positive view of capitalism has gone from 54% to 41%.
Just to underscore, fewer than half of Republicans — the party that claims to embrace free markets! — now have a strongly favorable view of capitalism. And 42% of them endorse a pretty Bernie Sanders-sounding sentiment about our "rigged" economy.
Americans are apparently growing disillusioned with our economic system.
And that's hardly the only data pointing in this direction:
Fewer than half of Americans say capitalism is working even "somewhat" well — down from 60% about a decade ago, according to a June Wall Street Journal-NORC poll. And views of big business went from 19 points positive in 2012 (58%-39%) to 25 points negative last year (37%-62%), according to Gallup data.
Given all of that, it's easy to see why candidates promising to overhaul the economic system — whether that's labeled socialism or something else — might have increasing appeal to American voters.
Conservative commentator Meghan McCain argued this week that Republicans would have a "huge f***ing problem" if Democrats nominate someone who can speak to economic issues like democratic socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani does.
Having failed at delivering any of his campaign promises-lies, and contemplating a crushing defeat of his herd of MAGA morons, Trump's scintillating strategy for the 2026 midterm elections is to call Democrats "socialists" and "communists" at every turn. With this language, the Great Moron is trying to defame and slander the Democrat candidates because dumb American voters have been trained from the crib to react like Pavlovian dogs upon hearing such bad words as communism and socialism.
Americans are therefore caught between a desire to progress (mostly young people with a broader view on the world thanks to technology) and a Hollywood-manufactured nostalgia of a golden past (circa the 1950s) among the older generations.
Americans are therefore caught between a desire to progress (mostly young people with a broader view on the world thanks to technology) and a Hollywood-manufactured nostalgia of a golden past (circa the 1950s) among the older generations.
In general, polls show that Americans' view of socialism is more positive while their view of capitalism is more negative. Views of capitalism have gone from 30 points positive in 2019 (57% favorable to 27% unfavorable among registered voters) to just four points positive today (50%-46%). The poll also shows 65% of voters agree that "the system is rigged to favor the wealthy." That's up from 56% in Trump's first term.
Americans are similarly divided on Israel. The older generations are stuck with defending the indefensible brutality of Israel on religious grounds (the canard of a unified Judeo-Christian world), while the younger generation of Americans are less adhesive to such religious superstitions and fake arguments because they have access to long occulted information and can make their decisions on their own.
Among Republicans, 72% viewed capitalism favorably back in 2019, that's down to 61% today. And the percentage of Republicans who have a "strongly" positive view of capitalism has gone from 54% to 41%.
Just to underscore, fewer than half of Republicans — the party that claims to embrace free markets! — now have a strongly favorable view of capitalism. And 42% of them endorse a pretty Bernie Sanders-sounding sentiment about our "rigged" economy.
Americans are apparently growing disillusioned with our economic system.
And that's hardly the only data pointing in this direction:
Fewer than half of Americans say capitalism is working even "somewhat" well — down from 60% about a decade ago, according to a June Wall Street Journal-NORC poll. And views of big business went from 19 points positive in 2012 (58%-39%) to 25 points negative last year (37%-62%), according to Gallup data.
Given all of that, it's easy to see why candidates promising to overhaul the economic system — whether that's labeled socialism or something else — might have increasing appeal to American voters.
Conservative commentator Meghan McCain argued this week that Republicans would have a "huge f***ing problem" if Democrats nominate someone who can speak to economic issues like democratic socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani does.
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