• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    a month ago

    Three things

    1. Red scare propaganda. Anti-socialism sentiment is the default in the US. Poling in the US has to find a way to express good policy without making it seem “socialist” in order to show majority support
    2. Lack of a social safety net. Rioting could mean losing your job, which means homelessness
    3. Appearance of political division is high. Most Americans agree with good policy (once you ask “correctly”), but the poison pill of conservative echo chambers have made a segment of people aggressively opposed to such sentiments. It makes it so you don’t know who you can express and share those ideas with.
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      a month ago

      It’s echo chambers in general imo. There’s more than just conservative echo chambers, and in fact I’d wager that there’s less conservative safe spaces than the others