A new Pew Research Center study found 53% of U.S. adults rated Americans’ morals and ethics as “bad,” making the U.S. the only country surveyed where that view prevailed.
Trust in other people underpins everything from civic life to everyday cooperation, so broad skepticism about neighbors’ character can shape politics, institutions and social cohesion.
Pew’s findings add an international benchmark to a long-running American debate about polarization and whether people see opponents—and even fellow citizens—as acting in good faith.
America is a great case study for how you use lies and propaganda to get people to hate each other. So glad our government is literally ran by assholes that allow this.
Well, republicans fully support child rape at this point… so …
Rape and murder (see Iran bombings, Palestinian genocide, American school shootings, etc.)
I was doorbelling for a local mayoral race. One of the people who we met openly talked about how if we have him a squad of US Marines (he said he was one) and a wood chipper he would “solve the homelessness problem in no time”.
So… That’s the kind of interactions I have with conservatives. Please let me know what I should fill out on this survey based on that kind of data.
My neighbor is a Vietnam era Marine. Looking at him you’d expect him to be that kind of guy. We live in a neighborhood with a large Hispanic population and have been having problems with wannabe ICE cruising around trying to identify homes where they live. Watched old boy stroll out of his house casually strapped (open carry state) and up to a car load of cousin fuckers who he sent skittering when they stopped to harass our Hispanic neighbor’s kids. Ironically the dad of the kids they were there to harass is a “Fuck Your Feelings” flag-waving Trumper 🙄
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The progressives think the conservative morals are horrific. The conservatives think the progressive morals are horrific. But it’s not a both sides thing because only one of those two groups are standing behind and protecting pedophiles.
The conservative morals are horrific (as evidenced by their support of a convicted criminal and child rapist among other things), conservatives think godless progressives don’t have any.
Well yeah, a country running tattletale hotlines is not a country of good morales
not a country of good morales
I had a tryst with a young woman with that surname and that was pretty damned good. I won’t generalize beyond that.
If you’re a republican or a conservative or otherwise support the current administration, then you’re a bad person. If you don’t think trans rights are human rights, then you’re a bad person. If you treat anyone in such a fashion that you would not want to be treated you are a bad person. This easily eliminates two thirds or three quarters of my countrymen. Americans are largely the problem with America, our whole culture is built around effectively anti-social principles and it fucking shows. We pour bleach on dumpster food instead of distributing it to homeless or needy even though we have legal protection from liability. Throwing away excess food costs more than redistributing it to local shelters, so we are intentionally cruel just for love of the game. Americans are bad people, nobody needs to think about it.
It’s not just the US though… the rest of the world is following the same path. You’re just winning by a good margin.
Pew reported a partisan split: Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents were more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to rate fellow Americans as morally and ethically bad, 60 percent versus 46 percent.
Can’t say I don’t see why.
The United States stood out as the only country where a majority described others’ morality and ethics as bad (53 percent) rather than good (47 percent), according to the report.
Have they tried asking those other countries about the United States?
The christian nationalists are satisfied
In America there’s a pretty safe bet you’re correct in that assumption. Unfortunately the ones with the shit morals also think that of the rest.
making the U.S. the only country surveyed where that view prevailed.
American exceptionalism come home to roost
When your absolve yourself on any moral judgement and follow a divine command ethics you have no morals, just unquestionable commands from an authority. When you absolve yourself on any moral judgement because you’re a maga cult member getting your motivations from a political authority and the people giving those commands are nihilists who refuse to engage in ethics because their philosophy hasn’t developed past childish egocentrism you don’t just have bad morals, you have no morals. And the rest have compromised morals by their inaction to remove unethical violent children from positions of power within communities and government.
This just reads like that Spiderman meme.
At least they are right about something
In the area I’m in, people think that lying is perfectly fine now. Even if you’re not a liar, people assume that you’re lying all the time, because they think it’s stupid to not lie. People think if you’re not lying, you’re a sucker.
It’s hard to get anything done because the mechanics and the plumbers and the city workers and the doctors and dentists and insurance companies and the people we work for and the religious leaders and on and on are all lying. If you’re a good liar with no conscience, life is a paradise–for the rest of us it’s hell.
I’m fully ready to believe those gullible uneducated rednecks are acting in good faith, after falling for the most vile manipulative hate speech
