There is truth and pretense happening here. From an outlier's position and someone that just does not care about politics, it is bizarre to watch what the American Culture has evolved into. Empathy and integrity have been bred out. Critical thinking is almost nonexistent. It is not "Trumpian Thinking", it is what the culture here is and has been, long before politicians started using social media like their citizens do. -You have to speak to the people in their language, and these days if it is not on social media, it is not heard. I think it is laughable how everyone can be so easily controlled. Coming from the UK, you should know how media can direct simple minded people into believing.. well, anything. And being your business as a writer, you are informing people of your beliefs as well. Politics are not the driving force behind me leaving the US, that would be as shallow as blaming one man for all the problems of a nation. It is the idiocracy of the American people and American culture as a whole that will drive out the people unwilling to assimilate.
Perhaps some folks are not articulate, and so a sound bite covers it for them. Obviously these problems and concerns are complex and multidimensional. There are no easy solutions or they would have been solved by now.
There is truth and pretense happening here. From an outlier's position and someone that just does not care about politics, it is bizarre to watch what the American Culture has evolved into. Empathy and integrity have been bred out. Critical thinking is almost nonexistent. It is not "Trumpian Thinking", it is what the culture here is and has been, long before politicians started using social media like their citizens do. -You have to speak to the people in their language, and these days if it is not on social media, it is not heard. I think it is laughable how everyone can be so easily controlled. Coming from the UK, you should know how media can direct simple minded people into believing.. well, anything. And being your business as a writer, you are informing people of your beliefs as well. Politics are not the driving force behind me leaving the US, that would be as shallow as blaming one man for all the problems of a nation. It is the idiocracy of the American people and American culture as a whole that will drive out the people unwilling to assimilate.
It's why we left. How about calling X eXecrable?
I would think America has been post-truth for at least 15 years before Trump, and that's just my adult experience. He is more symptom, less cause.
Perhaps some folks are not articulate, and so a sound bite covers it for them. Obviously these problems and concerns are complex and multidimensional. There are no easy solutions or they would have been solved by now.
Perceptive, insightful and bang on the money Charlie 👍
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