For those thinking the country is inevitably failing, what can we do THIS year?

[ProgressiveModerate]

I blame media and especially social media.

Firstly I think social media has spread false narratives that things are crappier than they are by only showing the extremes; extremes wealth and privilege and extreme poverty and violence, making it seem like there’s MASSIVE inequality. Furthermore because extreme wealth is just spammed everywhere people sort of expect it to be the norm when it never was. I really dislike this believe the 60s were some golden era for the mainstream American public than that was far from true.

There’s genuinely a cohort of people on my generation who think they’re struggling economically and getting screwed over until they can afford to party all day in the Penthouse of 432 Park Avenue.

I also think social media has just lowered many people’s social trust and caused them to act weirder and more hateful towards eachother. Social media also comes with the byproduct of less real person interaction where people tend to have more mutual respect for eachother and actually feel more connected to the community around them. Also what allows folks to fall down conspiracies

That’s not to say there aren’t real problems like housing cost, but even that is a bit inflated; it’s only a few cities that have it really bad, and while average home price has generally gone up, so have things like home size.

I think there needs to be a serious mass movement to try and get people off social media, and I think social trust and country optimism would increase.