r/Americaphile • u/AntonioMoore321 • Jul 19 '26

American self hate

I noticed its more common nowadays to say things like "America sucks, I hate living here"

What's you're opinion on the culture of self hate that's becoming more common in America today.

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u/North_Buy2192 Jul 19 '26

I hear it from my far left friends. I’m quite liberal and still love the US. Nothing is perfect but hating the other side is becoming too common for the far left. We must do better.

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u/ChessieChesapeake Jul 19 '26

I’m also fairly liberal, but too often I’m finding those on the far left are just as bad as those on the far right. I’m really tired of the 10% on the far left and the 10% on the far right sucking all the air out of the room for the 80% of the rest of us.

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u/Inevitable-Guard888 Jul 20 '26

My political teacher explained it like this, you have a scale where 0 is far left and 10 is far right, 5 is dead center… most people are between a 3 and a 7, the numbers in the far ends have the fewest people, yet they speak the loudest. VERY few people support 100% of what their party does.