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Why Is Life In America So Horrible and Oppressive? Why Are People So Miserable?
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:01 pm
According to the news, sports, entertainment, etc., America is a horrible, oppressive society full of violence and oppression everywhere.
I wonder why?
Haven't Liberals pretty much governed the social/cultural narrative for almost 50 years?
Why are things so bad? And, they seem to keep getting worse.
People are more miserable and aggrieved than ever.
It is almost as though we don't have any answers for what ails us or the answers that we have been working from for the last couple of decades aren't working.
Man, America is horrible. Apparently.
I wonder why?
Haven't Liberals pretty much governed the social/cultural narrative for almost 50 years?
Why are things so bad? And, they seem to keep getting worse.
People are more miserable and aggrieved than ever.
It is almost as though we don't have any answers for what ails us or the answers that we have been working from for the last couple of decades aren't working.
Man, America is horrible. Apparently.
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Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:02 pm to AlaTiger
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Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:03 pm to AlaTiger
It's because happiness in the US is not Equal. Of course, it's not equal anywhere. But liberals are more bothered by this natural state.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:03 pm to AlaTiger
Well this isn't hyperbolic or anything.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:04 pm to AlaTiger
Americans have more purchasing power than any other peoples, more access to consumer goods, access to revolutionary medicine that other western nations could only DREAM of having.
We are victims of our own extremely high expectations. Even when compared to Western Europe, America is wealthy as shite.
Great Britain would be the second poorest state in America, barely ahead of Mississippi.
We are victims of our own extremely high expectations. Even when compared to Western Europe, America is wealthy as shite.
Great Britain would be the second poorest state in America, barely ahead of Mississippi.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:04 pm to Zach
quote:
But liberals are more bothered by this natural state.
it didn't take long.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:05 pm to AlaTiger
Well, this country has pumped out an unrealistic idea of what the "American Dream" was. This has resulted in people being disappointed, no matter where they end up.
We are also use more antidepressants than any other country.
We are also use more antidepressants than any other country.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:06 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
hubris
we've come to think we can survive anything and have the answer for everything
we've come to think we can survive anything and have the answer for everything
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:08 pm to SFVtiger
quote:I don't think it is hubris, although we are very prideful.
hubris
IMO, it is more of people having grossly unrealistic expectations.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:08 pm to TT9
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But liberals are more bothered by this natural state. it didn't take long.
Is that supposed to be a refutation of an obvious truth?
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:11 pm to AlaTiger
Because we've reached a point where everyone needs to be offended and upset by things. Survival needs are covered so people need to find another issue.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:12 pm to AlaTiger
America is full of pussies
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:13 pm to AlaTiger
quote:
Haven't Liberals pretty much governed the social/cultural narrative for almost 50 years?
errr, what planet do you live on cause this is not reality.
Granted pop culture is a dredge of waste and is terrible but its not liberal, or conservative. Its just garbage.
and ftr, most of the bitching these days comes from the right. The left has always been insistent on whining, and has for my entire life. But this new theme in the republican party that everything sucks and its all obama's fault is relatively recent.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:13 pm to Zach
I don't think it's so obvious.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:14 pm to AlaTiger
I blame Obama
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:15 pm to AlaTiger
quote:America hasn't been working since 1913. America ceased to exist with FDR's bankruptcy of 1933.
It is almost as though we don't have any answers for what ails us or the answers that we have been working from for the last couple of decades aren't working.
What we're experiencing now is just the snowball effect from that, which will continue to grow because Americans have been successfully sedated.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:15 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Mo Money Mo Problems
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:18 pm to AlaTiger
Conservatives never complain about anything.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:19 pm to Fun Bunch
because when politicians promise social government welfare to get elected and then don't come through like they said, people get pissed off. she's gotta support her 9 kids somehow!!!!
Posted on 9/17/14 at 1:25 pm to TT9
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I don't think it's so obvious.
So, if the primary value system of liberalism is not Equality, what is it?
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