True. Orthogonal to religious views, churches served as community anchors and people talked to their neighbors. Furthermore, most people under 40 don't own their own homes, don't have any wealth, don't have roots to the place where the work paycheck-to-paycheck. Unconcerned, uninformed white collar workers buy the narrative by repeat factoids like "the economy is the best ever" while denying real inequality such as the gutting of the middle-class, pervasive lack of net worth and the many hundreds of thousands more homeless people living on the streets than 30 years ago... this lack of solidarity and lack of empathy with the people who are hurting but feel screwed is what let Trump win.

And also the corporate inverted totalitarianism, mainstream media, social media and political animosity/puritanism atomizes people with 300 Facebook friends who they never talk to into real-life groups of 1.

Maybe America is slowly going the way of the Roman Republic/Empire but I sure hope folks wake up and turn things around for We The People rather than just the very rich soon.

I think I'll unplug for tonight.