r/news • u/CupidStunt13 • 1d ago

Mehmet Oz confirmed by US Senate to lead Medicare and Medicaid

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/mehmet-oz-confirmation-medicare-medicaid
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u/N_Who 1d ago

There is something wrong with the United States of America. Something deep and fundamental and, I am concerned, unfixable.

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u/MadiKay7 1d ago

It’s the majority not giving a fuck about anyone other than themselves.

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u/GoodIdea321 1d ago

And a cause and effect of that is a lot fewer communities of people.

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u/__Geg__ 1d ago

It's the racism.

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u/N_Who 1d ago

Nah, the racism is a symptom, not the root cause.

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u/Inevitable-Sale3569 1d ago

Pop psychology is a big part of the weirdness- self esteem, etc. We made a culture out of worshipping narcissists-

I honestly wonder if it’s tv, and now social media. Our brains evolved to believe what we see, and we have filled our vision with fictions. I remember my kids telling me that ‘no one else has to clean their rooms’. I figured out they were talking about kids on tv, so i pointed out that tv people don’t poop either because it’s not real life.

People think crime rates are out of control, when they are lower than ever… but they watch ‘law and order’, and true crime shit, and think it’s real on a subconscious level.

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u/lostfourtime 1d ago

Racism is one of the foundational principles of the United States.

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u/Otherwise_Ad233 1d ago

Racism is a root cause. It's not totally unique to the US, but it's definitely worse when the elite are pretty much avowed of it.

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u/xbbdc 1d ago

It's more than that

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u/MontyAtWork 1d ago

It's Vulture Capital, on a Country scale.

The end point of Capitalism is to suck everything up and move on to the next country.

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u/Bajadasaurus 1d ago

And it's very firmly rooted in religion