Are Americans Experiencing Collective Trauma?

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10. Yes.

I think this has been coming for many years, decades, even. Right-wingers have always pitted one group against another. It's the only way they have won because their actual policies are terrible for most people. The hollowing-out of American communities by giant corporations in the name of greed is part-and-parcel of the whole thing. While we are so busy blaming "the deplorables" for their votes, we really need to be asking ourselves how this happened. In reality, it was a long time coming, with the loosening of broadcast rules enabling the rise of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News and media consolidation, thanks to the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

In fact this is the Shock Doctrine coming home to roost. Even Democrats fall for the fallacy that the free market is all.