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submitted 12 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

As the U.S. prepares for an extravagant celebration of its founding principles, fewer Americans see their country as exceptional, a new poll finds.

The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research highlights many Americans’ feeling of unease over the future of its representative government — particularly among young people. It presents a jarring contrast as communities around the country commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary. 

Only about one-quarter of Americans say the U.S. stands above all other countries in the world, the new poll found, while 44% say it’s one of the greatest countries in the world, along with some others. About 3 in 10 say there are better countries than the U.S., an increase from 19% in an AP-NORC poll conducted in June 2016.

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About 3 in 10 say there are better countries than the U.S.

So 7 in 10 think that having free healthcare, safety nets and, in general, a government that's not actively trying to kill you is a bad thing?

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 56 points 12 hours ago

About 3 in 10 say there are better countries than the U.S

7 in 10 are still blinded by the propaganda then.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago

I mean… At least a couple of those seven could be thinking they’re all fucked. That’s how I feel, even the countries I used to think about fleeing to are all being bullshit right now. Whether it’s the EU’s continued infatuation with chat control, or Brexit, or whatever else is going on. Several countries right now seem like they’re only about five or 10 years behind the United States in so far as enshitifying goes.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 5 points 8 hours ago

Some of us might see it as exceptionally shitty or at least exceptionally captured by corporate interests.

[-] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 27 points 11 hours ago

Stop tolerating the right, for starters. They tried to overthrow the government in the Civil War and then everyone just stopped and let them slink back into society like it never happened instead of rounding them up and executing them for treason. Hundreds of years later, surprise, they’re strong again and back at it. Will they learn from the past this time? Clearly not.

[-] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

I think what mount actually be effective would be to have a 'January 6th Re-enactment' event. You basically gaslight the fuck out of Republicans and act like the j6 insurrection was a peaceful protest. Then have as many people show up as possible dressed in pro Trump shit with face coverings, only this time, we do what they actually intended to do with j6, which is overthrow the government.

Like what are they gonna do? Freak out because j6 was a violent act of treason? Because it's just a re-enactment of what repubs claim was a peaceful demonstration.

Also don't actually announce the event in advance, just show up unexpectedly, it will give them no time to prepare the troops/national guard.

At the end of the day the optics will be that a group of Trump supporters are trying to reenact an event that Trump claims was a perfectly peaceful legal demonstration. Except we actually execute it correctly. At first make it really hokey and stupid like a civil war re-enactment. Let people put their guard down, have the event start to peter out, then bam, swarm once they've let their guard down, and smoke, smoke, smoke. Reduce visibility, create chaos, act quickly. Have ice looking camo and carriers on under you clothes, switch clothes quickly, blend in as another team of responders, make your way to the perimeter, sabotage people stationed there, cause more chaos, then disperse. Capture the reps guilty of treason, deal with them on the spot

When you make it so the responders can't trust one another when they respond to the event you will have won.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

Most data centers in the world! Most criminally charged leader in history! No one can equal the American kleptocracy!

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 12 hours ago

The only way we stand above the rest of the world is in the strength of our military. We’ve squandered and abused pretty much every other advantage we might have once had.

[-] GardenGeek@europe.pub 16 points 11 hours ago

No worries, the current admin is busy working on reducing the US military capabilities in this moment.

[-] Astronut@lemmy.zip 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Lord Feltersnatch and his maga minions have destroyed it!

[-] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 45 minutes ago

We’ve been broken long before now, Trump is simply finishing it off.

[-] chocrates@piefed.world 13 points 11 hours ago

America was broken on day 1. We were founded by rich white slave owners they didn't want to pay taxes.

We genocided the natives and stole everything they had and then started exporting that across the globe.

Hell the "golden age" of American prosperity was built off war profiteering.

Experiment over, we failed. Time to try something new.

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