A new Pew Research Center study found 53% of U.S. adults rated Americans’ morals and ethics as “bad,” making the U.S. the only country surveyed where that view prevailed.
Trust in other people underpins everything from civic life to everyday cooperation, so broad skepticism about neighbors’ character can shape politics, institutions and social cohesion.
Pew’s findings add an international benchmark to a long-running American debate about polarization and whether people see opponents—and even fellow citizens—as acting in good faith.
Well, republicans fully support child rape at this point… so …
Rape and murder (see Iran bombings, Palestinian genocide, American school shootings, etc.)
I was doorbelling for a local mayoral race. One of the people who we met openly talked about how if we have him a squad of US Marines (he said he was one) and a wood chipper he would “solve the homelessness problem in no time”.
So… That’s the kind of interactions I have with conservatives. Please let me know what I should fill out on this survey based on that kind of data.
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Well yeah, a country running tattletale hotlines is not a country of good morales
If you’re a republican or a conservative or otherwise support the current administration, then you’re a bad person. If you don’t think trans rights are human rights, then you’re a bad person. If you treat anyone in such a fashion that you would not want to be treated you are a bad person. This easily eliminates two thirds or three quarters of my countrymen. Americans are largely the problem with America, our whole culture is built around effectively anti-social principles and it fucking shows. We pour bleach on dumpster food instead of distributing it to homeless or needy even though we have legal protection from liability. Throwing away excess food costs more than redistributing it to local shelters, so we are intentionally cruel just for love of the game. Americans are bad people, nobody needs to think about it.
This is the social attitude that forces of capital want every human on Earth to share, and it’s spreading like fucking fire through dry brush right now. It knows no borders, it’s just the the USA was the big dog on the block that everyone looks to, so we see it here first. It’s wrecking many other countries as we speak in the exact same way.
In America there’s a pretty safe bet you’re correct in that assumption. Unfortunately the ones with the shit morals also think that of the rest.
making the U.S. the only country surveyed where that view prevailed.
American exceptionalism come home to roost
I’m fully ready to believe those gullible uneducated rednecks are acting in good faith, after falling for the most vile manipulative hate speech
This just reads like that Spiderman meme.
In the area I’m in, people think that lying is perfectly fine now. Even if you’re not a liar, people assume that you’re lying all the time, because they think it’s stupid to not lie. People think if you’re not lying, you’re a sucker.
It’s hard to get anything done because the mechanics and the plumbers and the city workers and the doctors and dentists and insurance companies and the people we work for and the religious leaders and on and on are all lying. If you’re a good liar with no conscience, life is a paradise–for the rest of us it’s hell.
They’re all thinking of people in the opposite political party
I’m mostly thinking of enlightened centrists, the ones actually responsible for Trump and Co.
My favorite take right now from the reactionary/enlightened centrists is when they point at things like RFK jr saying something about food dyes. Or getting rid of pennies.
Really, things like that make all the rest of it worth it? I just can’t even with that bunch. Imagine flipping the script: if the Democrats were letting Biden just go buck-wild with the country and no one was stopping him? Would these “centrists” be talking about dyes and pennies?
Me personally, I’m very literal minded. When I say getting rid of pennies is good, I mean just that: getting rid of pennies is good. I certainly DO NOT think that tiny little good thing is equal to all the horrible crap Trump has done. I don’t think it makes any of the suffering worth it. I’d go back to using pennies if it meant all the horrible things from the Trump administration went away
The weird thing? He couldn’t even do that right. He unleashed more chaos by just announcing the end of pennies. No real planning, no direction given.
I’m rather ambivalent about pennies myself. The claim is that it will save $56 million per year, which is a rounding error in the U.S. budget. Hell, Noem apparently stole $220 million for ads featuring herself cosplaying. I have to wonder what it ends up costing the average American, though. And it seems it has unleashed some real chaos for retailers.
It’s so weird how US political parties are ingrained as a personality trait. Just the way someone cheers for a sports team, even if they don’t like the current roster, Americans seem to vote for “their” party even if the offering isn’t good.
This practice undermines the entire point of democracy. If a party has your vote without having to earn it, why would they ever do anything good for you?
… I’ve NEVER been surveyed in 40 years of America life… starting not to trust titles like these
Well you’re surveilled so that’s close enough, Citizen!
I used to work at a call center that did these kinds of surveys, 95% of people just say no or hang up, the only folks that answer them are old, mostly conservative, people that still have land lines.
America is a great case study for how you use lies and propaganda to get people to hate each other. So glad our government is literally ran by assholes that allow this.
