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DemocracyMouse

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4. OK, so what caused the increase in crazy Americans?
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 09:24 AM
Jan 2018

This is a serious sociological question. Were they always there and simply flared up via:

– Frustration with increasing overpaid/underpaid divide? (and zero analysis as to why and thus prone to blame, crazily, other struggling Americans rather than Wall Street)

– Internet enabling amplification of crazy social media posts.

– Russian trolls.

– Facebook failing to hire human editors to oversee fake news/ads.

– Trump as role model

– The usual self-serving Republican eatablishment willing to exploit all of the above.

– "Citizens United" (the most oxymoronic label in history), abandonment of key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, new voter suppression tactics, etc., all of which allowed the minority crazy side cheat the more rational, compassionate side out of a gazillion elections across the country.

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