No, after trying it, I decided being an arrogant, spiteful, narcissistic, selfish, hateful, vengeful, judgemental piece of shit is exhausting as all hell and also just kind of a little bit wrong, don't ya think?
Yes. Vaguely going backwards, cherrypicking some things, but this country has always been fucked and done evil things that led to overall increased stupidity:
Fox News and lack of fairness doctrine
Citizens United
A fucking Vice President shot a guy (Cheney was part two, actually)
Reaganism
Pointless wars for money
McCarthyism
The backlash that began after reconstruction era and boiled over during the early 20th century era immigration that saw increased nationalization and christian zealotry specifically leading to Christianity and "patriotism" forced into laws, on money, in schools, amd such. So many "murican" things that some morons think have been a constant since the founding fathers was actually forced by scared white people in power 100 years ago.
Civil War
Side note, did you know even Lincoln was a scheming politician? He pulled strings to ensure he'd have enough electoral votes for his re-election, including pushing for a new state he knew would be loyal to him
All the lead up to the Civil War, which began with our differences and divide right at the founding of the country. We didn't get along since the beginning.
Andrew Jackson and the Cherokee
Everything else we've done to Native people
A fucking Vice President shot a guy in a duel (this was part one)
Some personal letters of founding fathers like Washington divulge how yhey actually thought about slaves and how they struggled to see them as humans
The vast majority of people were not free and did not have voting rights when the country was founded, making the declaration and most of the constitution to come later laughable at best in how they worded things. They explicitly cared about white landowning males with money.
Cool. I was talking about religion. Gay people have a right to exist and if a bar is friendly for them, so be it. There are other bars.
Chic Fil A is not trying to merely appeal to those of their own beliefs only. They are willingly taking anyone's money and turning around and using that for religious zealotry. In fact, the example you bring up feels extra fucked considering that fucking company goes out of its way to donate to anti-LGBTQ organizations.
Thr right will tell a basketball player to "shut up and dribble" and a burger joint oughta only make fucking burgers then.
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.
While it has been quite a while now, I would have a hard time getting over the fact that I have never encountered a WD HDD that did NOT fail. Between prebuilts when I was younger, and friends/family computers I helped with. It was astonishing how pathetic the WD's were.
Disappointing years ago when I read they acquired Seagate.
Facts and statistics say the organization running the lottery is IMMENSELY less likely to run out of money than YOU. Take the annuity. Winning the lottery does not suddenly make one smart with money.
Remember everyone. View tariffs as kind of a federal sales tax. Sales tax typically affect lower classes more than upper classes. It will also compete with other sales taxes at other government levels. Those smaller governments rely on it more than the federal government.
Meaning, to grossly oversimplify, this will ultimately cost more for people with less wealth, and it will degrade your local governments ability to provide services due to less income.
To answer OP's question. They already have plans to pass more tax cuts for the rich (federally). That money has to come from elsewhere. This is one form of the elsewhere.
Tomorrow: