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> I'm sure the comparisons have been made for many years, but by mid-2020 it felt like almost everyone in the USA must have been exposed to some hard truths abo
by heavyset_go 3y ago
> I'm sure the comparisons have been made for many years, but by mid-2020 it felt like almost everyone in the USA must have been exposed to some hard truths about how 'the rest of the west' handles these fairly fundamental services.
You'd hope, but that type of facts and rhetoric wasn't seized upon by the media or political parties. A good amount of people were never exposed to that information nor its consequences, let alone the consequences of our negligence towards health and social services.
People were happy to get some checks and extended unemployment, and a lot of people were angry about those checks and extended unemployment. A good chunk of people wouldn't have given a shit about how well your country was doing if you were wearing masks.
- Jedd 3y agoYeah, I suspect it's more nuanced than it seemed to me at the time. You say it wasn't seized upon by media etc, but perhaps it just wasn't by the media you (or I) was consuming? The USA media I consumed - Seth Meyer, John Oliver, some reddit / imgur - tends towards the more thoughtful / empathetic / liberal demographics, but unarguably is a bubble of sorts. I suspect, but also have no hard data, that the younger generation, generally more 'connected' and exposed to more of this type of information, was instrumental in extracting that orange chap, and I speculate much of that motivation came from this vector. Though how much of that was pandemic-highlighting of poor and unfair health services vs other factors .. well, who knows. Exit polls only get you so far, assuming these kinds of questions were ever asked.
- throwaway66886 3y ago[flagged]