Americans are not a monolith. Tons of Americans are concerned. Tons are not. Also many Americans have lives where these issues the news typically stirs up don’t really actually impact their daily lives. Others are dramatically affected. It really depends on location and status, among so many factors.
Various news and online channels might have you thinking all Americans are basically the same and experiencing things the same, but they are definitely not.
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My parents: “You’re a nerd, can you help with our computer?”
I reluctantly overlook how insulting they always are and help
Many months later
My parents: “Our computer isn’t working right lately. It’s probably your fault from the last time you were messing with it.”
Sometimes you can also get “when was the last time you read your Bible?”
I don’t murder all the time when no one’s around to notice. You’re welcome to everyone.
I was strictly speaking of the number of civilian federal employees. Yes that number was 3 million as of December 2024. It was roughly 2.8 million in 1970.
This also includes a RIF of around 450k people in the 1990s, and I’m not sure about what in the 1980s as I recall reading Reagan was very anti-fed. As a proportion of the population, the amount of people working for the country as civil servants has shrunk.
I was strictly speaking of the number of civilian federal employees. Yes that number was 3 million as of December 2024. It was roughly 2.8 million in 1970. It has always been around that amount, despite the population and complexity of the country growing in the 55 years since.
It is a lie that the government is larger at least in terms of employees, and any citizen saying they feel the government has “gotten too big” is generally a fucking moron. Especially when those types typically support the abusively bloated and heavily unchecked defense spending.
Perhaps it would help if you were to… say… document cases of this. Perhaps a list and links to as many of these communities as you can point to. You know, to research and begin assessing… the scale of the problem… and maybe how to resolve it.
The federal government is literally the same size it was in the early 1970s.
Idiots voting red: “the gubments gotten too big!”
I have gotten really fucking tired of:
Blah blah blah. HERES WHY…
Can 2 girls share 1 creamer?
If there’s a day 1 patch for big game releases, it’s the same as early access. Going gold means bullshit nowadays.
They literally already told us to fuck off.
“this guy didn’t break any law but we’re still trying to figure out how to lock him away.”
I mean that’s like 90% of US history. Especially for minorities and disenfranchised groups.
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I think they’re focused on when you import more than you export, that’s a net loss, or a trade deficit.
One way to view it is that you are propping up someone else’s economy, or you are funneling your money outside.
So I think nationalistic morons just hate that at face value without any critical thinking.
In some formulas this is included in GDP, and growing up in rural America, I always heard whining about how America needed to stay on top and not be beaten by China or whoever else, and a lot of that rhetoric sometimes simply stems from made up crap like who has the bigger number, such as GDP. I can tell you how often I’ve heard idiotic ideas like how some other country like China will just invade and take us over if we aren’t #1 in everything. Like being #2 or 3 somehow means death.
I usually waste my time trying to point out the sun now sets on the British flag every damn day, and yet they still have their country and they still live pretty decent lives. The British didn’t just disappear once their empire was basically over.
Conservatism and nationalism is toxic.
“Political appointee”
Federal workers to Fox: “Get fucked.”
Wait! Stop! That’s dangerous.
Throw the scissors to your destination first. You don’t want to be running with scissors.