what is wrong with america?

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everyone is bringing up stuff from the past and talking about it over and over. even the most mundane things, its a big f*****g deal. i wish everyone could come up with new ideas and subjects and stop talking about dumb s**t. all these reality show are pointless. who the hell want to see someone's lives filmed? takes hoarder for example. they are showing how horrible their house are. the media has gotten to a point where they are desparate. its a damn shame.

Our society's gotten weirder and weirder as the years go by.

As a European I have no say in the matter what's wrong with America. Instead, I'd like to ask what's wrong with the world. I have a simple answer – sin. Not only that a man sins when he shoots children, but also who sinned and how to cause the man to shoot. Then who sinned and how to trigger this last-mentioned sin. The chain leads backwards who knows how far.

People have always been weird and done awful things. It just gets communicated and publicized much more easily these days. No comment on reality TV.

America has had a long history of two specific things, Anti-Government Attitudes and Hatred of Taxes. In the Past it was easier to deal with people with mental illness, you simply ostracized them or locked them up in the nut house and gave them electric shock therapy until they were drooling imbeciles.. now though, thanks to government cuts to mental health in the 80's, and the fact that we as a country don't want to implement a single payer healthcare system, we are suffering the results of the fecund crop of mentally ill people who can't get help due to lack of funds.

So long as you have people who will, in good faith, actually write signs which say 'Get your government hands off my medicaid!'.. this problem isn't going to go away, it's simply an extreme manifestation of it.

*Too many different of opinions and too big of a country
*Trying to separate diverse opinions into two political parties causes sensationalism, more skewed information, having to cater to different parties in the primaries, and feuds among the parties and just general hatred
*Caring about things, but not having ways to make an impact, or not acting when you do get one, and then acting like you care
*Everything is political

So basically
Hatred and sensationalism.
with the people.

With the government, the federal government wasn't supposed to be in charge....it was supposed to mediate between parties,

America has a mental health problem

What's wrong with America?

Society stabbing itself in the back, the ongoing issues with race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, corrupted politicians, I could go on.

The important question is what's wrong with the world.

I almost think we're 50 small countries pretending we are one unified big country. It is very tenuous trying to shove these Red States and Blue States together and say we are one Nation when underneath our culture and politics is very fragmented.

As for reality shows, they can be fascinating to a point like hoarders, but I see something like The Amish Mafia and get suspicious that this is a "Scripted" Reality Show. Sadly, I used to watch Hardcore Pawn but now I think it is heavily fabricated.

I'll admit though I'll watch Pawn Stars because real interesting items come through on that show. Or even Oddities.

I also like cooking shows that demonstrate real skill and I might even learn something.

Simple....its not Japan or Canada.

So you don't mean America, you just mean TV? I gave it up a few years ago, and have no problem with it anymore because it's simply not part of my day.

Why the dissatisfaction with American politicians? I've heard it said that "America has got the best politicians that money can buy".

Good question. My answer would be all the lazy slobs that sit around all day complaining about the government and the social media instead of showering, getting dressed, and getting out there to do something about it.

If you want to see what is wrong with america, look in a mirror. I don't mean you specifically, but us all, In microcosm reflect the larger picture. America is the sum of us all. We make it. Its not somebody else's (like the politician's or lobbys or whatever's) problem or fault. If there is a problem its our problem, our fault.

That's because we ARE 50 small countries pretending we are one unified big country. So long as we continue to allow the rights of these 50 small countries to supersede the needs of the country as a whole, we will continue to be held back. We can't move forward with really meaningful things due to short sighted and selfish political maneuvering and gerrymandering. Simple as. The ONLY time the country has any form of true coherence is when we are attacked or threatened by a perceived outside threat. This is nothing new though, it goes back as far as the period immediately following the Revolutionary War. That's the whole thing with the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, under Hamilton and Jefferson respectively. The Federalists gained at first, during the XYZ affair, but then Jefferson and Burr got into the white house, followed by Hamilton getting shot in a duel with Burr, and then the War of 1812 happened under President Madison, totally cementing the legacy of Jeffersonian "Democratic-Republicanism" and sinking the Federalist ambitions of Hamilton. If the Federalists had won out, we likely would be a heck of a lot more like Canada today than we are, and we would be 50 sections of a single country rather than 50 countries locked in a padded room together.

Don't know. This make you feel better?