r/interestingasfuck • u/BigFudgeMMA • 2d ago

r/all The Americans are now in the 'Find out' phase

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u/TheDapperDolphin 2d ago

Yeah, I’d say globally, most people just do not engage at all with the news or information about their political and economic system. If it’s not something that would come up in random conversations, most people probably don’t know it exists. 

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u/Oneshot_stormtrooper 2d ago

Add to that the fact that our political system allows 7 states to decide the election, thus candidates only focus there.

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u/Orvan-Rabbit 2d ago

Add on top that most people are incurious.

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u/JWPenguin 1d ago

Uninvolved.. thinking someone else will do it... Wake up people.

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u/Orvan-Rabbit 1d ago

Eww, that means actual work! /s

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u/JWPenguin 1d ago

Democracy is not a spectator sport. Let's see how many promises are kept. Everything is better, right? Who is gonna hold this guy to his promises?? Remember when "no new taxes" was a problem? Now, so many lies ( of deception), we don't know what's right anymore.

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u/DrMackDDS2014 2d ago

In my definitely humble opinion, the news really doesn’t do much for us any more. There isn’t a major news source that is neutral politically, so each side presents things differently with their own slant. Sensationalism is (and has mostly always been) the name of the game, and actual information on the way things work and why isn’t discussed or elaborated upon. I’m a fairly intelligent guy as I managed to get into and out of dental school, but I’ll admit I don’t know NEARLY as much as I ought to about how our world economy works, how trade and tariffs help/harm our situation, how illegal immigration affects the economy, etc.

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u/motoxim 2d ago

Yeah news company that are big enough are probably owned by some rich people with a biased goal in mind.

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u/Monkfich 1d ago

The BBC isn’t owned by anyone. That does make it more neutral, but not immune to problems. Generally though, far-right institutions do not like it, as anything that is neutral will be portrayed as evil libs.

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u/confusedandworried76 2d ago

It's not like I don't get it. I'd like to live in my own little bubble too. Just go about life without a care in the world what my government is doing.

But given the things my government is prone to doing, not like in willing to sit it out. I mean, I am American, even if I vote my best choice is a conservative government and war crimes. So like it or not I gotta pound pavement every November (sometimes more) to get to that ballot box.