“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get Brutally Honest

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As an American with a Dad who was stationed in Germany in the Army in the 60"s I have to say my faamily bears no animosity at all. When someone says Germany I think of a good Lager and a Brat :) not the guy with the toothbrush moustache. We get it here too dude. Ppl point at us and think slavery is still our fault and I was born in 1966 man. I thought the big hair and those big a*s combs were cool lol. Racism is still rampant here though and that breaks my heart. I love my country but I am embarrassed for condition we are in now. You can curse at me but still got nothing but love. We are all human, skeletons all look the same, rich, poor, idiot, genius.

Ignorance is not a blessing! This is why í will never go to the US. Nothing is right there. How can a convicted fellon rapist á traitor child molester a tax fraud and the most stupid person on the planet and so many other bad things get to be a president? There is something seriously wrong with more than half of the US population! Just WOW!! Go be a fascisist country if you really want it so much but leave the rest of us alone!!

Some of us are living in dread of what this moron will do.

Humanity has become a lot more selfish over the last few years

This legit reads like a tragic poem that resonates in my soul.

The OP is 100% correct.

I've been noticing compassion and consideration are going up a bit. A bit.

This is all so common in the US. I just can't understand why. When did we decide to hate so much?

Technically(according to the teachings), karma doesn't follow our timeline. A lot of people get the concept of karma worng. The westernised version is not what it is. To have Karma enact "justice" according to our calendar so that we have some semblance of normalcy is not how it works.

Scary part is, people are rooting for the bad, rude people.

Trust that it will come back to them ten fold. Not your job to worry about it.

Aren't we seeing that on an absolutely global scale now. IT's only going to get worse.

My sister was defrauded by a con man of over $80,000 and lost her car too. She was damned near suicidal. She was angry that people like him have such a good life while people like her suffer. I noted that he had alot of enemies, alot of nefarious friends, alot of court cases, a long rap list and he was losing friends daily because no one was safe from his con's, his family had long disowned him. But, he doesn't care, he just takes and always comes out on top. No, he looked over his shoulder every day, he slept with one eye open and had to run and hide constantly, he was constantly having to plot and plan to keep a roof over his head as he wasn't welcome anywhere. The toll? I told her he would never make old bones, he didnt, he died of a massive heart attack at 47. We perceive the lives of these types as perfect, we can't see from the outside looking in how deep and ugly the hole they dig, how pointless and useless their machinations are.

To quote a maxim 'Empires rise and empires fall.' I suspect we are whitenessing the US empire falling,

They are not to be TRUSTED. When people fear the politicians instead of the politicians fearing the people you're in trouble.

It's a nightmare. That's why everyone is rushing the border to get out.

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Gtfo,b

Lots of poor people are hard workers.

I'm known at work as a hard worker. I get the most s**t thrown my way and spoken to like c**p. Lesson learned. I've toned it down a notch and now I'm "being too slow". You can't win in a work place unless you play your cards right in the beginning.

Working hard does pay off - just not always for the person doing the work.

Hard work is just one part. Being clever about it, and being lucky getting opportunities, there is a lot more to it.

It's at least 50% network. You can work on your network anywhere you meet people. I worked in a store and made new contacts there that helped me further. Just be kind to others, listen and never be scared to share what you want out of life. Make a 5 year plan and inform people around you about it (the grand scheme), people will want to help you reach your goals.

United States always had the disinformation problem. From the American Exceptionalism myth to the shining city on the hill to the greatest country in the world, is propaganda. Instead of dealing with the problems head on, there was this delusion created to keep the masses dis/misinformed and vote against their interests. George Carlin and other comedians and philosophers have spotted it and tried to inform.

The most frightening thing to me is not realizing the source of some of that disinformation.

This is why people come to Australia.

'Back in my day' and 'when I was a kid' are the same thing. You don't remember the bad stuff because you were a kid. Your parents shielded you from worrying about bills and you didn't watch the news, it was cartoons all the way!! The world was always this awful, if not worse. The ONLY difference 'these days' is that due to smart phones you can see, in real time, the horrific destruction that men (it IS always men, isn't it?) inflict on civilians around the world..

"A demagogue who is elected POTUS after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and "traditional" values. After his election, " "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -- From It can't happen here by Sinclair Lewis in 1935

The United States has never been a democracy. It was established as a republic and has remained one.

Finished reading It Can't Happen Here before the election and gave up all hope. Funny though it was Democrats in the book. The long decent has begun.

It isn’t a democracy by the way. We are a representative republic.