When you're on top, your every decision is bound to be scrutinized, so you have to be able to take the heat. Both from the inside and the outside. Especially if you're leading the Free World. Setting an example simply comes with the job.
But the Facebook group 'America's Cultural Decline Into Idiocy' (ACDII) thinks the country could — and should — do better.
Its 277K members share funny yet sobering memes poking fun at politics, culture, and everything else they believe is spiraling out of hand. Here are some of the ones that have received the most attention there.
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When it comes to the general American public, economic issues continue to dominate their ranking of the top problems facing the country.
A Pew survey of 5,103 U.S. adults from April 2026 revealed that 73% of them say the affordability of health care is a very big problem for the country (up 6 percentage points from February of last year), 66% believe inflation is a very big problem (up from 63% over the same timeframe), and 64% view the federal budget deficit as a very big problem (up 7 points).
While a far smaller share sees unemployment as a very big problem in the country today (36%), this has seen a big jump (by 11 points) since early 2025.
