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submitted 1 week ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Americans are exceptionally anxious about their political system, according to new international polling from Gallup, a situation that sets the country apart from other rich and powerful nations.

About one-third of Americans rated politics and government as the top issue facing their nation, behind only Taiwan — which faces the prospect of an invasion from China — and on par with Slovenia, Spain and South Korea.

The United States also stands out for the anxiety its younger residents have over economic issues, with younger Americans more likely than young adults in many of the other 107 surveyed countries to say affordability and other pocketbook issues are worrying them

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[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 week ago

Yeah…. Finally. I mean, I felt like Jan 6 should have been a really big wakup, but wasn’t somehow

[-] n4ch1sm0@piefed.social 19 points 1 week ago

The right wing propaganda machine did such a good job at getting the "apolitical normies" and the otherwise politically nihilistic public to misconstrue the noise as just some left-right partisan debate, with all the buzz about just the rioters; while in the meantime Trump was working in the background at the same time, along with the likes of Rudy Giuliani, to deligitimize the 2020 election in a failed coup, and barely got any coverage. This was Trump's Beer Hall Putsch

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are you suggesting the rightwing propaganda machine is what prevented Biden from arresting Trump on day one in office?

The only reason J6 was allowed to be effective was Biden.

[-] MacAttak8@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

The ratchet effect at work.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It is the american system. No american president will ever go to jail for crimes

[-] n4ch1sm0@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

No. That was a symptom of a controlled opposition party veiled in neo-liberalism running parallel with the right wing propaganda machine. Equally as complicit and treasonous.

Earnestly, the new Epstein dump makes me feel the whole thing was an Israeli psyop. My head is still spinning.

I continue to be floored that so many people didn’t seem to care about that - or even admit that it happened. I watched it live and it was genuinely insane. Like, “oh fuck, this is looking a whole fucking lot like a coup, I wonder if we’ll be a democracy tomorrow” insane.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I feel like everyone paying attention was very awake that day.

The problem is the real winner in every election is "didn't vote". Fuck every single person that isn't voting.

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