‘Exhausted’ Americans are tuning out politics, according to cable news ratings and recent poll
‘Exhausted’ Americans are tuning out politics, according to cable news ratings and recent poll
According to a new AP poll, about two-thirds of Americans have grown exhausted following Donald Trump’s election and are now limiting their consumption of political media.
Yeah no shit. I’ve certainly reached my personal breaking limit.
I’m sure I’ll catch flack for this, but I’ve been unsubscribing from any political related news or USA community in my feed because I just can’t do this anymore. Including this one after posting my thoughts.
I’ve resigned myself to knowing it’s going to be a truly very bad 4 years for me and a lot of other people but there’s nothing I can hope to accomplish or change for the better by being enraged and depressed every day by looking through my feed. We all know damn well you don’t need a social media feed to hear bad news, it’s going to trickle in from real life anyway.
Can’t help anybody if I can’t look after my own well being first.
When national politics is shit, see about your own community first. And also, what many people call "US political news" is total nonsense, empty coverage of nothing at all. Anyone who shuts off cable political TV news is doing their brain a favor.
State and local politics affect you a lot more, but because they need more reporters to cover that the media doesn't bother with it.
Same. I will make sure I vote in the midterms and in 4 years. But I can't take another 4 years of being bombarded with trump and musk shit.
Same - I’m just finding it blissful not to worry about the future of the world, just to focus on making my personal ends meet.
Maybe they're not tuning out politics. Maybe they're tuning out cable news.
My stepdad watches msnbc and cnn a lot and yet didn’t know who Peter Thiel was. They don’t tell you anything, they’re garbage.
As a Canadian I'm fucking exhausted with American politics too, because for the next 4 years it's gonna be 50% some dumb Trump thing, and 25% how the government will more efficiently fuck over people to serve the wealthy.
I was hyper aware during the first term, and look where that got me.
2/3 of Americans tuning out Trump news, but that means that many of them didn't vote at all despite not wanting this, or acknowledging they voted against their interests and are tuning it out anyways. Fantastic. Thanks guys.
And also, ok, the fascists are in power now? Time to tune out of politics....
What?
I’m in the “fuck it, I’ll check back in in 4 years camp”
If I watch the news every day and get angry, the fascists are in power. If I don’t, they are still in power. The amount of news watching and angry I get does absolutely nothing to change how much power they have right now.
Especially after nearly a decade now of the never ending
- Trump does or says something outrageous or awful or fucking stupid
- News talking heads go on and on about how this time he will really face consequences, this time is different. Mueller is a pit bull, Jack Smith is not someone to fuck with, the southern district of New York put Capone away. This time for really real, he’s going down
- No consequences
- go to step 1
What’s the point. I know the stories already. Maybe one day the magats will kick down my door to carry me off to the gulags, at least I have the power to not give them rent free space in my brain until they do.
It’s convenient for them to let minorities take it hard and to ignore it, beneficial even. It’s that privilege we hear about. Good for them not having to care about others just as they are put in danger. Real quality people.
Pretty confident 2/3rds of Americans don't understand that reality tv is fake so I'm doubtful they were ever paying attention to politics at all
I added filters to all my social media to filter out everything involving politics or candidate names, everything. Man, my mental health has been so much better. Blissful ignorance for me from now on!
“ after electing a fascist monster that will destroy the United States and every concept of democracy, the dumb fucks who voted for him don’t wanna hear any criticism.”
What a shock
I voted against him, but I simply cannot, for my own mental health, be aware of what's going on for another trump term. Being active and involved during his first presidency was horrendous for my emotional and spiritual well-being, and I refuse to let myself burn at both ends for another one. At this point, I did what I could. Whatever happens happens, but I'm tuning out and focusing on what's going on in my immediate surroundings.
Repeating your psychotically delusional, dribble is not convincing.
I sincerely hope that you can be safely institutionalized for the rest of your life before you mass murder other people because of your psychotic delusions.
And the doctor that doesn’t lock you up is criminally negligent. I will investigate them and report them to the state board.