It seems to me that Americans got played on this front. Racism and prejudice where it counts is still alive and well, albeit often in a suit or living out of si

It seems to me that Americans got played on this front. Racism and prejudice where it counts is still alive and well, albeit often in a suit or living out of sight now. It's often not out, loud and proud anymore, but, arguably, short of lynchings, at least that kind was easy to spot and avoid. Much harder to deduce people's inner positions now that we're all running mini PR operations. Social causes also got co-opted by corporations who happily surfed from wave to wave and skated past accountability to their causes they were attaching themselves to. In the meantime, the US economy is a shambles, the average quality of education is spectacularly bad and the future doesn't seem to have a strong upward trend at this time. People's attitudes generally are not good.