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>The last generation of Americans who will enjoy anything approaching financial security in old age could spend the Golden Years we’ll never have golfing, going on cruises, driving RVs, or watching The Price is Right. They could choose to be happy, having lived their entire lives in a system from which they extracted every benefit and which they subsequently dismantled at the altar of lower taxes

To me, it seems that the author calling these folks paranoid is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Not big on the empathy this guy, is he? I get that it's a bit of righteous entertainment dressed up as commentary, but even as that it's quite breathtaking in its lack of respect for its target.

EDIT: Ah f- it, flagged. This is hardly satisfying anyone's intellectual curiosity.

tldr: The half of the country that voted for the current President are all awful, stupid people, and they spend their time reading awful, stupid websites.

And the social network business model leads them to validate and reinforce each others' worst tendencies.

My point was that this looks quite the same from the other side of the aisle.

More damningly, that article has nothing useful to add beyond ad hominems. Instead, try this: https://heterodoxacademy.org/social-science-hidden-tribes/