"Being an American is the most stressful job I've ever had and it doesn't even come with health insurance

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"I just want a day. A single day. Give me one day where I don’t have to have such crippling anxiety over the state of our country. Being an American is the most stressful job I’ve ever had and it doesn’t even come with health insurance"..

[DFW]

1. Being an American during the Clinton, Obama and Biden presidencies wasn't so hard.

As an American living in Europe and speaking nine European languages, I always get an earful from the people in the countries I work in. I’m low-hanging fruit because if I say I don’t understand, they know I’d be lying.

They’re jealous when we have a Democratic president, and they mock me unmercifully when we have a Republican president. That’s the short version of course, but even so, it pretty much sums up the last 30 or do years for me.

[marble falls]

2. Could be a lot worse: you could have woken up this morning in Bangaldesh. Or Crimea. Or Sudan. or ....

Life is pretty good here all things considered.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Or what is left of Gaza waiting for another attack.

[hay rick]

5. I don't think the poster is a consumer talking about the standard of living.

A citizen or a patriot, waking up in America, daily sees a once proud democracy circling the drain.

[58Sunliner]

4. Tell me about it. Add on a couple of layers like being a woman or poc.

[Upthevibe]

6. Kick. N/T

[sop]

7. That's why corporate media exists, to keep Americans in a constant state of crippling fear and anxiety.

It's easier to control a fearful and distracted populace. We're also more effectively manipulated when the manufactured issues that divide us are kept at 50/50 polling numbers. Corporate media propagandists can easily tip the scales in the direction they want when we're evenly split.

[MaryMagdaline]

8. Yes. There's a meme going around "I want a precedented day in America."