I’m not trying to fedpost or any form of 
-posting in any form, more just marveling at the entirely lackluster response of the American public to the maddeningly absurd state of American politics.
Of course Americans are the most propagandized people on Earth, but it’s been that way for generations, and at this point I feel like the sheer amount of shit that is allowed to just fly by with full knowledge of the public with little or no 
moments is preposterous. Not to mention the fact that as things continue to get worse, there are more and more people who are desperate and/or unwell, and in such a position as to incite some crazy shit.
Like… at this point, it’s just open knowledge that the government is a cabal of bloated parasitic pedophiles, and it has been so for quite some time now. Not just “they MIGHT be doing some creepy shit”, but rather they definitely, 100%, without any question have been, are, and will continue to do the most abhorrent type of shit anyone can imagine, for their own sick satisfaction and greed. Conversely, the number of people who’ve lost someone to the soul-sucking nightmare that is our healthcare system, or who’ve lost a child or loved one in any of our many shootings, or any number of other reasons to be righteously revolted by this manufactured reality we live in, is surely immense.
While some people are obviously acting out in all the most disgustingly wrong ways (i.e. said shootings), there’s quite a lot of people who know the correct people to blame for our collective misery, who also have nothing left to lose, because they’ve tragically lost it all already.
So… am I just wrong to expect that more type shit should be going down by now?
Sweet no one’s said my answer verbatim yet.
Essentially - competition, scarcity and precariousness in the US have degraded social ties and atomized the population. This hampers organization which poses a threat to capital, but supports that which props up its existence. This continues the civic mythology cycle which asserts as long as one quietly plays their role, they will benefit from the fruits of the imperial project.
The ‘purpose of a system is what it does’ - and it’s the US humming along as intended, as the vanguard state of laissez-faire capitalism.
False scarcity and precariousness have long been utilized to get the most out of workers under capitalism. Not cooperation to build towards a common goal, but competition so one is not be outran to their individual goal.
I think this is primarily intra-class competition with the intent further alienating one from their otherwise peers. It’s also been important to sub-divide the classes along other racial/national/ideological lines to prevent coalition building within one’s class.
As a result, the stress of competition is turned inward to one’s class, rather than critically examining the relationship to the owning classes-which take 90% of the wealth, or the oppressed classes - who the “middle class” extracts wealth from (or rather receives the trickle the owners allow, but to the same effect.)
There’s a threat of isolation if one falls outside of their atomized in-group for whatever reason. And thus groups atomized via competition/scarcity/precarity are receptive to propaganda which supports their cause. And while that’s looked different at different snapshots in time, the systems end state has remained relatively the same.
That being: We must secure the existence of our people and a future for [global capital].
But dressed up as: We must secure the existence of our people and a future for
white children* (*latest acceptable in-group as determined by ROI).So basically Americans are trained to be as docile of employees as possible, or risk undoing generations of work to claw their way from poverty, while not questioning where that money comes from or where it goes.
However as the contradictions of capital accumulation heighten (a phenomenon someone should write about) it becomes more difficult to buy into the system and more people begin looking past their blinders and expanding their in-group (first organizing steps). This is a threat to capital so these movements are often co-opted asap. This allows some venting of ‘revolutionary’ energy, but is ultimately still serves capital through alienation and prevents supporting an international movement, as both still separate out-groups.
‘Revolutionary’ energy directed towards international liberation is the biggest threat to capital, and what most of its resources work to quash.
So within the population, ‘revolutionary’ energy is spent:
I think between all of those, there aren’t enough hopeless people with enough energy to do so. Meanwhile hopeful people dump their energy into trying to advance against capital.
Idk I should stop now this really got longer than intended lol.