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Pushed the US closer to civil war though. Isn’t that worse?
by jonwinstanley 6y ago
Pushed the US closer to civil war though. Isn’t that worse?
- gjs278 6y agolol no because there isn’t going to be a civil war
- jelliclesfarm 6y agohow?
- jonwinstanley 6y agoLots of ways
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoSome would say its better. I guess it depends on your perspective.
- rtx 6y agoNo brown people are very thankful.
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- odiroot 6y agoI had an impression this strong division already started during Obama presidency. Probably in the aftermath of 2008 crisis.
- mmastrac 6y agoIronically Trump was one of the major pushers of the birther story.
- InitialLastName 6y agoThis. The 2008 collapse converted large populations of young, rural and urban middle-class people into wage slaves, while both the Bush and Obama administrations printed money to prop up the financial institutions whose behavior caused the collapse. This propped up the stock market nicely, which kept retireees happy, but inflated away any assets and wage growth younger people might have seen. The real trick, though, was the MSM and social media using bubbles and doubletalk to convince those angry un-/under-employed urban and rural folks that they should blame each other. From that, you got the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street and (the angry seeds of) the alt-right and the populist left.