Europeans don't, maybe sometimes can't, understand the absolute crushing pressure and gaslighting that most Americans are put through to make us the way we are.

It's a decades long effort to turn most of the population into a money and power pump for a tiny elite class, all while grinding us into dust.

We're crazy and scared all the time, and have no idea what's going on in the rest of the world.

There's a reason dying of opiates seemed like a rational choice to a lot of people.

@quinn don't worry about it. Europeans variously conquered the world and extinguished cultures and ecosystems, the US has simply taken over the lead in systematic oppression. We should change that system, navel-gazing won't do that.