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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been traveling to the Midwest for years to visit family. The divide happened a long time ago. Before Obama was elected. I put the blame on right wing radio and entertainment outlets like Fox News, Breitbart, Glenn Beck, and Alex Jones. The entertainment they push is anger and outrage, bigotry and sexism. I watched my dad get sucked into that world but he died in 2013. Folks are reeling in this country due to huge economic shifts that are occurring in economic/labor market, much like the industrial revolution. If you think back to that time in history and the profound changes that occurred, it makes sense.

The only thing that is going to change is the younger generations will be able to cope more with the new economic/labor environment and the ones in the thick of the change will die off. [/quote]

+1. Exactly this. [/quote]

Actually, the complete opposite. AI and automation is going to make a large percentage of the population useless (in a labor market sense), the big tech companies will continue to operate unchecked because they’ve paid off the RNC and DNC and we are going to become like Brazil: a highly stratified country where there are a lot of poor people and a few rich people who have to go around with armed guards all time time to avoid getting robbed and killed by the rest of their countrymen and women who they’ve left behind.

Or...we can elect someone who will address these technological and economic forces, reduce economic inequality, draw up sensible regulations for the big corporations and tech companies and stop this country from spiraling out of control into a dystopia. What we can’t have is Trump or business as usual. Business as usual will get us outright fascism ala Brazil soon. [/quote]

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