When did America culture go wrong

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[quote] We have the best universities in the country. Some of the best doctors, nuclear biologists, largest charity organizations sans the Catholic Church, richest people of any Western nation….yet the dumbest, most uninformed, most hateful electorate of any Western nation.

We have the best universities in the country.

Think about what you just wrote, OP.

R2 Why so school marm? It may not be perfect grammar and syntax, but it’s just DL.

Rural electrification.

R1 That’s hella cynical. You might be on to something though. I said what I said. A nation built off chattel slavery and exploitation of black bodies.

Huma n nature is the same everywhere, unfortunately.

R6 Fuck off you fkin cunt. Fuck you think playing with? You do this is dumb shit from time. I post on my phone mostly. Fuck you mocking my shit. I told you I have a borderline genius iq.

I don't know, R3, I guess it just struck me as funny that OP was bitching about the dumb US electorate, then proved he's one of them with his first sentence.

The dumbing down of America continues daily on DL.

I didn't mock you. I think it's important for people to realize that the people who supported Slobodan Milosevic in the 90s were j ust the same as our people, and so are the people in so-called banana republics. Sooner later all peoples show themselves to be self-destructive lemmings.. It happens everywhere and always will. That's why it's so important to create a system that tries to block such behavior,but all such systems need to be maintained and managed. You can't write a law and expect it to work 200 years. Human capacity for destruction over time is way too great for that.

OP, America has the best universities in the country?

When was American culture "correct"? They nuked Japan. They decimated the Natives. They enslaved a whole people. Sounds like a sick culture tbh

Easy - its organized religion. The open and tolerated embrace of this fucking book of fairy tales is the epitome of stupid.

[quote] When did America culture go wrong

I'm not sure... when were you born?

1619 with the introduction of chattel slavery which continues in other forms, just one of the many arms of vulture capitalism.

I have been on a lot of forums. I swear at times this one DL is hands down the world class dumbest at times. And most of DL votes.

The OP may be on to something

I blame the Republican Party for turning to propaganda after Goldwater lost. That was step one.

Setting up Fox News to spread the propaganda better, after Bush lost, was step two.

It worked. We’re done.

R17 blames those smart enough to win. I understand I have done that my whole life when I lose.

[Quote] 1619 with the introduction of chattel slavery which continues in other forms

So America went wrong 160 years before it existed. Roger that.

By not punishing Confederates after the Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.

They just put their loser tails between their legs AND WAITED.

Nikki Hale was right.

There’s no incentive to be better.

There’s no shame in not being educated or what you wear in public or not knowing what fork to use at the table or any kind of manners or etiquette which used to distinguish people in public.

Because of the internet and social media, there’s no insecurities of having a filter and ignorance is mistaken for authenticity.

Trump is the perfect example and why people find him so captivating. Because he “tells it like it is” and he’s “real” because he “speaks his mind”.

People are so beyond ignorant they’re not afraid to look stupid or say stupid things because they’re delusional and self absorbed.

And people are REWARDED for this behavior.

Being delusional is so marketable today.

Stupidity in politics is social in nature. People who are embarrassed by their beliefs stand up for them when other people support them.

R19 They’re right. America created a crazy class system that’s non-existent in other western countries and why white Americans are the most uncivilized white people in the western world.

It’s why we operate like third world countries. It’s why we have the death penalty, crazy gun laws, laborious and corrupt prison system, no universal healthcare, etc etc.

Trying to maintain racism and white supremacy has caught up with the US.

That’s why we’ve been basically having a white trash civil war right now.

R18 doesn’t understand OP’s question. OP asked when the culture went wrong. The republicans can be “smart” (euphemism for amoral) enough to win, but also cause a decline in American culture.

R18 knows I’m right and doesn’t like thst, so is changing the subject.

R18 also said

[Quote] I have been on a lot of forums. I swear at times this one DL is hands down the world class dumbest at times.

For being the only one that can’t ban you?

If it’s so dumb, what does it say about you that you’re so obsessed with playing here? Just go back to Gab and truth social and Breitbart and rightwing Twitter then.

The dawn of social media and "content". It meant that there were no gatekeepers anymore. Game changer. On the positive side, it meant that incredibly talented but un-commercial artists could put their art dictionary in front of the world, and the world would decide. It's why so many current musicians started out self-producing and/or starting a YouTube channel. They now had control.

On the negative side, there's everything else. Yikes. Any shitty "personality" can "create" a "viral moment". The flow of new content on YT, IG, other apps is like a million firehoses. Netflix, which was originally very curated and consumable, is now filled with "content" that looks like it cost five dollars to produce.

Maybe it was never right. Maybe it was all just bluster.

A friend of mine summed it best. The problem with America is people think those with no journalism or investigative background, reporting the news is FREEDOM.

R6 apologies. I thought you were my stalker.

[quote]When did America culture go wrong

"Reality" TV

Perhaps genocide of indigenous populations and the acceptance of slavery have something to do with American culture's wrongness.

But OP is not an English speaker, obviously.

Foreign troll.

R30 Que?

Ok so I forgot the n in American. Sue me.

Even if OP meant to say America has the best universities in the world, that would still be an arrogant statement. Americans who think Americans are the best, or have the best, are either naive or ill-informed. Such ignorant statements often come from people who have never traveled out of the country.

American culture has never been “all that.” We enslaved people, we stole land from the native tribes, the Wild West was full of stupid people who used guns to get their way. The current situation with Trump is not out of line with historical American values - these are American values.

We are not a kind culture.

R18 is DeFucktardo. You can smell the faux superiority all the way through the Internets.

Roseanne made white trash respectable.

Bad public education and bad parenting. I’m around tweens all day for work, and at that age you can really tell which ones have strong, attentive parents who are around, and those who do not. Other cultures have a much stronger family culture than we do, and it matters more than we realize.

R32/OP, You also "forgot" that it's "OK" and that you don't need to be sued.

You need to be reviled and expelled like a bad mushroom for the trolling idiocy.

You have your answer. No choke on it, cunt.

R37 I am not trolling. I hope your days gets better. Happy Mothers Day to the birthing bodies in your family. Love you. It was a mere typo Gheesh.

I suspect 1876 marked the subversion of our revolutionary principles. But for a more recent turning point, the election of Ronald Reagan was the beginning of the end for modern America.