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Edit: I see that I didn't understand your comment actually, I agree. Privation is a rural/urban problem. I'm not sure you read my entire comment. As I said tow

Edit: I see that I didn't understand your comment actually, I agree. Privation is a rural/urban problem. I'm not sure you read my entire comment. As I said toward the bottom, income inequality is a serious concern to me. I'm from a rural community and the individual struggles I see there are very upsetting. But most people I talk to in tech are not in a bubble. They are aware of how hard it must be for people and want solutions. The problem is we have two roughly equally sized political factions with mutually exclusive ideas on how to solve it that are pretty hostile to compromise.

ianai 9y ago
I don't think it's the two sides that are the problem. They're symptoms of multiple problems. The voting system itself created a duopoly. One side of that duopoly has moved to extremes over the last 30+ years and dragged the other side with it. We need a way out of the two party situation.
- isostatic 9y ago
  The US has no extreme in the mainstream political left - Clinton, Obama, even Sanders are no more extreme than Macron or Blair. You don't even have a Corbyn figure, let alone someone like Maduro.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  > One side of that duopoly has moved to extremes over the last 30+ years and dragged the other side with it. Actually, I think the tactical move to the center of the Democratic Party (which didn't start with Bill Clinton, but his nomination was a pivotal moment in it) is he real key factor in the sharp rightward shift of the Overton Window that really led to the extremist takeover of the Republican Party, which has been increasingly radicalized.