re: Is this the most divided our nation has been in your lifetime?

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I actually see the anger and frustration from BLM, Antifa, and a lot of Trump supporters as very similar.

The marginalized people in the media, entertainment, justice system, etc. all have legitimate anger over a structurally flawed system. A recent example was congress's inability to agree with a Covid relief bill for 5+ months, and when it finally came out, it was a $900 billion disappointment with hardly anything for the people most impacted by the Covid related shutdowns. The government nearly outlawed a huge portion of our economy and severely impacted small business and their employees. Then they failed to help the people impacted, instead throwing hundreds of billions into foreign governments to indirectly line their own pockets and satisfy the lobbyists.

Those are just recent examples of how tone deaf our lawmakers are. Their strategy for addressing this is to deflect blame to someone or something else (Iraq, Trump, rich people, poor people, religious people etc.) and set the sides apart.

They've found that they don't really have to do anything or even bother appealing to moderate voices if they (and their friends in the media) can set both sides against each other with superficial social issues. So we get fiery debates over gender pronouns or who is being more unfairly treated in popular culture.....but nothing is ever really done to even address the real issues.

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