re: Why are people so angry?

Your name should be sweetwaterbetty instead of sweetwaterbilly

They don't realize why they're here. Therefore, they think everything is about them by default, and they're continually disappointed.

Many people are just scared and out of place.

Right now if the information comes from any source shaped like a rectangle, it is enraging people.

Talk to people. Converse with people one on one. You’ll find out there’s a hell of a lot more things you can agree on than disagree. But be cautious if they just got done watching one of those so-called news networks their level of belligerency will be directly proportional to which alphabets were used in its name.

I’m probably over simplifying, but I think every fricking bit of it circles back to social media.

Economy was extremely strong prior to COVID. More poor people entered middle class and more middle class acquired net wealth since the late 40s/early 50s. It came to an abrupt end. People get scared when things like that occur. Dems made a 180 in the 4 weeks between Jan 30 and March 1 on COVID. Look up the various Op Ed pieces in the national newspapers and the stories about Chinese New Year. Every single one of them written in late January/early February criticize the president for overreacting to the virus. Fast forward approximately four weeks and those same newspapers and politicians realized that they could use the virus to blame the president in an attempt to put a face on the cause of the fear. Mix in the George Floyd Death and now you have an opportunity to create panic/chaos. The reality is that the statistics prove we handled this virus well and that common sense measures (wearing masks and cleaning your hands) works. Same with statistics on LEO shootings. The spin doctors, however, don’t want you to focus on facts and statistics. They continue to feed you pain, misery, violence and chaos in hope that you attach the President’s face to the cause. I am will to bet anyone a large amount of money that if Trump loses, within 2 weeks of inauguration the media stories and op ed pieces on COVID/BLM movement drop by over 50 %. Likewise , I also bet thy within that same time period the civil unrest dramatically decreases, as do the COVID restrictions. Make no mistake about it, opportunists have used two events to “stir the pot” during an election year.

Chafing....lots of chafing.....

Errone needs some lotion....

Because they are losers who actually believe that the path to happiness is being given things instead of earning them.

They never encounter that basic human endorphin shot that comes from being a hunter/gatherer and finding that fig tree or shooting that boar to help feed the tribe. Making that real estate deal or growing that field of corn.

They float through life in meaningless jobs, wondering why life sucks.

The rest of us are too busy being American to slow down and teach them, so we just work harder to drag them along behind us.

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I’m probably over simplifying, but I think every fricking bit of it circles back to social media.

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Studies are a mixed bag at this point given the newness of social media. There was a longitudinal study that came out in March that said they didn't see correlation between accessing social media itself and mental health, but it was an 8-year study and honestly it's only been a couple of years that social media was really widely spread among a myriad of people beyond just 20 year olds.

That said, there is a correlation between screen time in general and increased anxiety and depression. Especially for adolescents.

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Studies are a mixed bag at this point given the newness of social media. There

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i would say people were pretty angry for hitler to take over, the armenian genocide to happen, etc.

social media is a boogeyman.