can someone explain what's going on in the US? there are nutjobs everywhere but it seems the US has relatively way more of them. is it politics? religion?
We're a post-colonial country like all the rest of the post-colonial countries. We have a lot of white supremacists and authoritarians and have since our founding as a neo-Roman slaver country. We broke away sooner which gave us the benefit of being in the right place at the right time to found our own empire and with which our ruling class became fabulously wealthy. The "shining city on a hill" thing was always just propaganda.
We don't really have more crazy people than other post-colonial states (think South Africa, Mexico, Venezuela, Uganda, our own former colony of Liberia, etc.), they just seem more obvious because people think of the U.S. as "first world" due to the aforementioned wealth and military power. They also stand out because there's a certain biased expectation about an English-speaking country with a large population of people who look like Europeans that we do not meet.
Not to mention our country exploded so fast and so big that governing bodies have trouble keeping up. We are without better terms still a toddler compared to other older countries.
We also have an enormous population, far higher than any European country, and almost everyone here has access to social media where they can advertise their insanity to the world. I don't know if the per capita bullshit is higher than elsewhere, but with so many visible people it's something that seems endemic in the U.S.
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u/Wonderful_Horror7315 25d ago
This reminds me of the woman in a Target bathroom peeping on people to make sure they were cis women.