I was "in 2020 years old" before I figured out that no small part of the reason American's don't set things on fire is that there is no social safety net or nationalized healthcare. We are literally scared we will go hungry or die without our medicines.
https://twitter.com/VeryBadLlama/status/1345472379812765697
The Greatest, Most Free Country In The World ™️ bows and scrapes to corporate overlords and leaders trying to destroy democracy because we've been blackmailed. When we have to choose between freedom and *the actual possibility of death*, we don't want to die.
It's not a stupid choice. If you can't live without your insulin, if you don't have savings (ha), if there's a three hour line at the local foodbank, then you can't risk your job and your family's little scrap of something like security.
That's why they feed our racism, why they won't give us healthcare, childcare, or education—to keep us terrified and in fighting each other for scraps. Those with power artificially create scarcity to hang a knife over our necks.
Everyone in America knows that their boss and their government will absolutely not hesitate to rain down suffering on us if we step out of line. We know they're willing to watch our children die.
I used to think we don't set stuff on fire like the French just because we we're complacent and entitled, and sure, that doesn't help. But I think generations of being terrorized by our own power structure is a bigger factor.
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