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I think there are a lot of things at play, but overall the world continues to improve. I will say that extreme levels of rising inequality and stagnation in quality of life for the majority leaves people with simmering resentment which often channels into blaming the 'other'. The alt right is certainly right about one thing which is that a very contented status quo of socially liberal but economically pro-free market politicians and leaders have with one hand lined their pockets and with the other have pushed down and silenced a racist and poverty stricken underclass who have now had a backlash in elections. I can't speak for the US, but in the UK the Brexit vote was certainly influenced by a sense of a cosmopolitan and wealthy city being the only thing that mattered in the country. Nobody outside of London, other than university town pockets, was truly engaged by the EU agenda. Nobody loved the EU ever. It was either passive tolerance or active dislike. The fact that it came as a massive surprise just reinforced how clearly out of touch the media and politicians were with the rest of the country. I'm not totally despairing of the future, but I hope we relearn for the fiftieth time that you can't smother an idea in silence, you need to engage with hateful ideology and humanise what they are against. Oh, and you need to tackle inequality and use tax money to promote social cohesion. Unhappy people are angry people.
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Sneakster posted:You're talking out of both sides of your mouth. You simultaneously ignore Trumps support is the upper class, say that politicians have betrayed the poor, and I'm willing to bet two more sentences and you'd say poor people are voting against their own interests if they don't vote for democrats who's only accomplishments post-LBJ has been slashing welfare and a medicaid expansion that was coincidental to robbing the middle class on behalf of capitalist interests. You have this mind numbing over simplification to the point of non-nonsensical of racism being the primary driver of people in ethnically homogeneous states, even when breaking hard for an actual leftwing choice for the first time in a generation and giving up after the choice got reduced to a racist republican lying about supporting social programs and a democrat lying about social programs who was willing to pander to the same homophobic and racism, border wall and everything, who's literally an extension of the administration that dismantled welfare. Nice meltdown, and also reading comprehension if you believe that post somehow was pro-Democrat or capitalism. drat these "non-nonsensical" DnD posters. I can't even follow this rambling screed.
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