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For context I'm a white person with a Rust Belt background and experience with people from both sides of US politics.
May 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
For context I'm a white person with a Rust Belt background and experience with people from both sides of US politics.
I agree this is one reason why. Recession-caused unemployment & drug abuse alongside social media and cable news channel polarization drove people to hopelessness that they filled with political radicalism. US geographical scattering and falling union/church membership yielded further alienation.
May 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I agree this is one reason why. Recession-caused unemployment & drug abuse alongside social media and cable news channel polarization drove people to hopelessness that they filled with political radicalism. US geographical scattering and falling union/church membership yielded further alienation.
American real median personal income increased substantially in the 1980s and the 1990s. And it increased in the 2000s. As for wages, they stagnated from 1971 to 1995, but grew at the same time NAFTA and China trade took off.
The timing doesn't add up. People feel worse off, but their wages aren't.
The timing doesn't add up. People feel worse off, but their wages aren't.
May 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
American real median personal income increased substantially in the 1980s and the 1990s. And it increased in the 2000s. As for wages, they stagnated from 1971 to 1995, but grew at the same time NAFTA and China trade took off.
The timing doesn't add up. People feel worse off, but their wages aren't.
The timing doesn't add up. People feel worse off, but their wages aren't.
Russia, the...9th most populous country in the world (just behind Bangladesh) with a GDP one quarter that of America and far lower than that of India.
April 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Russia, the...9th most populous country in the world (just behind Bangladesh) with a GDP one quarter that of America and far lower than that of India.