Current Events > Does America obviously rely on the general public being uninformed and stupid?

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I believe so, and I feel like our response to covid regardless of Trump is proof.

I feel like they don't want us to be better informed and proactive about things because it's to their benefit that we don't rise up to anything important in this country.

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All countries leaders rely on this.

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Of course, stupid people are easy to herd.

Also why the US has been falling behind nearly every country in the sciences.

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Our educational system isn't the best and there's an entire political party dedicated to spreading and believing falsehoods.
But probably the bigger factors are media consolidation and time. By the former, I mean virtually every major media outlet is owned by some massive corporation, and these media outlets collectively determine what ideas are to be presented as "plausible" and "serious", and which are not.
By the latter, I mean that most people who are struggling to make ends meet and spend 40+ hours working a week have too many other things to worry about to really invest their time in digging deep into our country's (innumerable) political issues. And, due to the above, a lot of the information out there is straight-up bad, and most of the rest presents only a limited range of solutions.

That's how we get our politicians.

Politicians, sure. So much of politics is just wrangling stupid people.

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But Trump was the best thing that ever happened to our country...if you're a communist.

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humans in general are shit at objectively looking at things, we respond much better to fear mongering. its why FOX is so popular, because all they do is fear monger.

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Every country does.

A happy and ignorant population is less likely to upset the status quo than an informed and restless population

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"america" is too vague. It sounds like you're talking specifically about American politicians. In which case I'd say for the most part probably yes, or at least if they don't RELY on us being stupid they COUNT on it.

If the question is about American corporations? Yes, absolutely, probably nearly unilaterally.

American entertainment? Some of it yes, other forms no.

American news? --Ironically, for many channels, yes, because they profit more by running alarmist attention-grabbing news than they would by running realistic news. Which is why government-funded news like in the UK is so much more reasonable.

Then there are other parts of america you could analyze -- law enforcement, american colleges, american workplaces/work culture, american food industry, healthcare, and so on.

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wackyteen posted...

Every country does.

A happy and ignorant population is less likely to upset the status quo than an informed and restless population

piUrsEitanizm posted...

I feel like they don't want us to be better informed and proactive about things because it's to their benefit that we don't rise up to anything important in this country.

Americans literally did rise up and try to storm the capital because they were uninformed and stupid

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People being uninformed and stupid make them easier to control.

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