‘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.
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?
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!