America Isn't Evil. It's Structurally Sick.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Across Europe, a question is being asked with growing frequency and unease: What is wrong with the United States? In quieter moments, the question sharpens into something harsher—are Americans a bad people? The question is understandable. From the outside, the country appears volatile, cruel, and increasingly indifferent to democratic norms. Its politics feel performative, its media combative, its institutions erratic.

Yet this framing mistakes moral character for structural condition.

The United States is not an evil society. It is a structurally sick one, and its population is living with the predictable consequences of that sickness.

To explain how Americans arrived here is not to excuse every choice made along the way. It is to reject the lazy moralism that substitutes collective blame for an honest accounting of power, incentives, and constrained agency. This is not an argument for despair, nor a blueprint for reform, but a necessary diagnosis—because no society can repair what it refuses to accurately name.

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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/america-isnt-evil-its-structurally

[dickthegrouch]

1. Since when has the media been combative?

With any kind of pushback whatsoever, rump never would have happened the first time, far less a second.

[maxsolomon]

4. You don't consider America's RW Media "combative"?

If I had to point at 1 factor that explains our "sickness", it's the unrelenting hateful propaganda that is pushed at Americans on (almost) every media platform: Radio, TV, and the Internet.

And their entire purpose is to sow division by smearing the Democratic party and Liberals.

Newspapers, while a favorite whipping boy on DU, are largely relics of the past read by the overeducated, and no longer shape public opinions. Not like Talk Radio.

[Blue Owl]

2. Right now our elections are not fair or representative

Exhibit A: Elon Musk
Exhibit B: Gerrymandering
Exhibit C: Corporate Personhood
Exhibit D: Hackable Electronic Voting Machines & Tabulating
Exhibit E: Voter Disenfranchisement

[pansypoo53219]

3. ditto + rupertstan has warped amerikkkans into neanderthals.

[thought crime]

5. Yes, America is broken.

The nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty symbolizes the fragility of power, order, or societal structures. Once broken, "all the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again." That's the problem; there's no fix. A broken society can't fix itself.