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Originally Posted by bots
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if our politicians tried to do similar events here they would be laughed at, so it's all a bit alien to me. It's my (maybe simplistic) impression that americans like to be in tribes. Like there is a gays for trump group, a white men for Harris group ..... i think that is sooooooo weird :laugh:
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You're not too far off. I would say we're more like a "hive", but a very competitive hive of hyper-individualists (is that a contradiction? yes). Americans compete over everything. Our neighbors were lowkey competing on Nextdoor as to who got power back faster post-hurricane. Everyone who got it last was certainly noted and then it turned into who had it out the longest. :laugh: There always has to be a "more than". Even if it's losing at something, we have to place on the leaderboard somewhere :laugh: It's petty, but it comes naturally to us.
A thought I removed from my post, to keep it short, is it's worth noting we had been conditioned for the longest time to follow media. So much so, it was the method as to which we connected to the general cultural temperament. It's obviously not as effective as now as our individual experiences diversity and social life is more and more fragmented. We're not sharing the same experiences in media we used to, so it can seem like we don't even share the same interest anymore. But it's a habit which is difficult to lose because of the ubiquity of media in American life for the past 50+ years. It was considered to be for the longest time, the closest we could get to having a national conversation without sharing the same geography.
In some sense the hurrah around the candidates is because deep down people do want to get back to that close connection as a country ASAP. The Democrat messaging is effective for this because it advertises itself as a way to satisfy this need the fastest as it's a low bar, and it's something that the anti-Progressives often miss entirely. "Vote for me and you'll finding belonging because we're ALL going there/this way". Except we won't. It'll be another shitty 50/50 result :laugh: I get the Hollywood-ffication of politics is dreadful, to say the least, but it's rooted in a really old ideal we still hold dear but the benefits of it have all but been lost to societal noise. Edit: And if it all this sounds like we're really easy to manipulate. The answer is "yes".
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