• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    50 years of cuts to the education system and the demonization of the Liberal Arts (history, sociology, etc…)

    A country that would rather keep a football program than an arts program is always going to suffer.

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    5th stage of grief… Acceptance.

    We know we’re fucked and the government believes it’s role is to wield power, not help people.

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    Because, quite frankly, Americans are idiots. They would rather scarf down misinformation given by their news anchors than open a book and/or think for themselves.

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    Anyone know why someone would think being in a house fire means you’re relatively unconcerned about dying in a fire?

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    This is one of those scenarios where it may be better to look at fiber detail

    • life expectancy by state has an 8 year range, from 72 to 80 years
    • our nightmare of health coverage … In 2018, …coverage rates ranged from 82.3% of people in Texas to 97.2% of people in Massachusetts.
    • average income almost doubles, from $87,063 down to $46,511.

    You can go down a list of stats related to quality of life, and see similarly large ranges by state, and the ones on the low end correlate strongly with people who voted Republican. These are poorer people with worse education, worse health, much less income, voting for disrupting the status quo without understanding what that means

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      The leading cause of death is the same. The leading cause of death of poor Republicans is the same as that of wealthy cardiologists: preventable forms of heart disease. There is so much toxic masculinity and superstition about food in the USA, even people who know better conform to the cultural norms, and kill themselves with unhealthy food.

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    Almost every person I know got a measles booster in response to the recent outbreaks (all were vaccinated during youth).

    Perhaps turn an eye on your biases.

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    If you’re referring to the gains in the anti vax movment

    It’s the same reason why a large portion of Americans are anti environment.

    It got politicized and instead of using critical thinking one side wants to win and thinks the other is lying to them about everything

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    Many Americans are exactly as the stereotypes about them say they are, loud and stupid.

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    Our educations system has been in decline for the last 20 years. Instead foreign money has combine with private interests to blast us with complete made up bullshit propaganda 24/7. Almost all of our major news sources are now owned or operated by MAGA donors, who care more about money than public well being. Basically, half this country is now too stupid to determine if the information they’re viewing is corporate propaganda, or foreign government propaganda. Both are exploitative, and both want Americans sick because it’s profitable to them. So despite having a president that publicly threw out our pandemic response killing more Americans than in all the wars we’ve ever faught in combined - 4 years later we reelected him. That’s how bad the propaganda is here. Combined with poor education, we can no longer agree on how basic cause and effect works.

    TL:DR - We’re now too stupid and hopped up on propaganda to understand how preventing diseases works.

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    Americans are not a monolith. Tons of Americans are concerned. Tons are not. Also many Americans have lives where these issues the news typically stirs up don’t really actually impact their daily lives. Others are dramatically affected. It really depends on location and status, among so many factors.

    Various news and online channels might have you thinking all Americans are basically the same and experiencing things the same, but they are definitely not.

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      And yet every state has the same leading causes of death. Nearly any two states are more alike than either of those states and another country.