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Originally Posted by August
[...] Seriously the American people have become very sharply divided in the past 20 years and I believe that it's getting closer and closer to coming to a head which which if it pops will not be pretty and we as a nation may not survive it.
What I would like to see before it gets there is a way to identify and thwart foreign meddlers. People talk a lot about Russian interference in the last election but their real efforts (and those of China) are not to support one American candidate over another but rather to egg on both sides past the ability to unite on just about any subject.
Our public discourse, increasingly online, has a constant background noise bringing us down. A low grumble of hate and discontent that is being directed at and against both political sides and maybe in other areas as well. Like the disembodied voice on the edge of a crowd yelling Hit him! or the scandalous bit of gossip that suddenly everyone has heard but nobody can really say where the story came from, it negatively affects the mood and tone of the discussion and the end result is that both sides hate each other and become unwilling to compromise or work together, indeed actively work to destroy the other side completely. This cannot continue for very much longer.
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QFT. This was quite a good post i think. I agree that no nation can afford to go on like that, also the foreign meddling for desinformation and more diversion is a very real threat, though i would not only blame foreign influence. Inequality, your Potus' 'law and order' methods, upcoming elections and his very special kind of self-portrayal is so absolutely .. ah forget it.
And i is not my intention to always blame the US for all BS happening,
OT here but e.g. Germany continues to be the country with the highest rate of fatal and non-fatal right-wing terrorist attacks. I also wonder if we can go on like that 'just so'.
https://www.radicalrightanalysis.com...ing-terrorism/
https://www.economist.com/europe/202...ight-terrorism