[johnebgd]

Half of the country has been left behind to the extent that they are worse off financially than their parents at the same age and have no path to improvement. It just keeps getting worse for them. The other half of the country thinks they are uneducated buffoons who are morally bankrupt for and need to do more to help themselves.

They blame the other half of the country for calling them “deplorables”, immigrants, globalization, religion, gender, education, science, and anything else that is an easy scapegoat. Blame whoever you want but the symptom of this illness that the institutions failed to resolve is the current political reality.