re: Why is the country/this board so polarized?

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The problem is that Americans expect the American dream of the 50's through the 80's. Those were unprecedented times in this country and the world economically. Those days are over. That kind of consumerist growth year over year can't be maintained. Especially since we exported it to a large part of the industrialized world. A new grassroots economy is developing. And I think it maintains the creative impulse that has always made this country so innovative. I hope the obsession with material things and keeping up with the Joneses is dying off. That 20th century mentality contributes to much of American's anxiety and dissatisfaction.

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