A slightly bit off topic, but as a European I would love to hear some intelligent, well thought, non provoking theories on why is America going through so much turmoil and polarization the last few years.
Or has it always been like this?
Or has it always been like this?
Failure of the war in the Middle East? Economic hollowing out of rural/middle America? Property prices? Russian influence? Far-right propaganda media organisations?
Some of today's issues are simply re-opening of issues that were never really properly settled at the civil war. Black people have never really been given the same level of equality and freedom that nonblack people have in America, and every generation has a go at doing something about it.
One of my childhood memories is (from the UK) watching a burning city on TV with the sound off, assuming it somewhere in the middle east, and later getting home and discovering that it was Los Angeles. Rodney King riots.
― H.L. Mencken, 1918
You're better off searching for answers elsewhere.