• @PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•22 days ago

    Because, in spite (or perhaps because of) the ‘rough individualist’ propaganda, most Americans have a strong sense of powerlessness and that all they can do is keep their head down and hope for the best. It veers into some really absurdist fatalism at times.

    t. leftist American from a conservative area who still keeps tabs on family

      • @PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7•22 days ago

        Luckily, the family member I’m closest to, my mother, is religiously fundamentalist and nationalist in a way that vaccinated her against MAGA, bizarrely. So talking to her is like having a 10+ year window into the past.

        But yeah, for the rest, oof.