Are you from a major metropolitan area or rural? I ask because a lot of this tends to fester in rural areas and the us has a lot of them. Its not all of it as you also get people pretty quickly blaming when their lives are not great. White people black people, black blaming white people, and citizens blaiming immegrants. Add in that the us wealth disparity is way high. Like it was in the gilded age. We are sitting at a 40 on the index while germany is a 30. Even worse we had a supreme court ruling called citizens united which effectively said money is speech and allows for unlimited money in our politics. Between rich folk wanting to push division among the poor and some foreign influences that really don’t care as long as there is division and chaos as maximally as possible. Add in social media and its ability to link up people who locally would be pretty much alone in their views into a nice little confimation communities. Whelp at that point we have what we have today. Its gotten to the point actually were I can’t tell how much are assholes are influencing abroad and how much abroad assholes are influencing ours. Alls I do know is the real issue is money and how unbalanced ownership of it is now. the highest is in billions so nine zeroes. So if you don’t have at least 5 zeroes you should certainly should know where you stand and because of how massive the increase each zero is. 6 or 7 are still way down closer to the only zero end than the top.
I’m from a rural area and mainly lived in different small towns and villages but also lived in a big city here in Germany. It almost feels to me that divisiveness is less in rural areas here since diversity is generally lower and the few people who “look different” or migrated need to fit in more and kind of just grow into the community and are seen like everyone else (but this might just be my area) (I think communities in Germany are more centralized than decentralized like in America). Even though I’ve seen more open mindedness in cities, I’ve also seen more separation and inequality there.
I think like you mentioned wealth disparity is probably a big factor and I get that this is more extreme in America (especially if you have this turbo capitalism) and they need someone to stick it to.
Are you from a major metropolitan area or rural? I ask because a lot of this tends to fester in rural areas and the us has a lot of them. Its not all of it as you also get people pretty quickly blaming when their lives are not great. White people black people, black blaming white people, and citizens blaiming immegrants. Add in that the us wealth disparity is way high. Like it was in the gilded age. We are sitting at a 40 on the index while germany is a 30. Even worse we had a supreme court ruling called citizens united which effectively said money is speech and allows for unlimited money in our politics. Between rich folk wanting to push division among the poor and some foreign influences that really don’t care as long as there is division and chaos as maximally as possible. Add in social media and its ability to link up people who locally would be pretty much alone in their views into a nice little confimation communities. Whelp at that point we have what we have today. Its gotten to the point actually were I can’t tell how much are assholes are influencing abroad and how much abroad assholes are influencing ours. Alls I do know is the real issue is money and how unbalanced ownership of it is now. the highest is in billions so nine zeroes. So if you don’t have at least 5 zeroes you should certainly should know where you stand and because of how massive the increase each zero is. 6 or 7 are still way down closer to the only zero end than the top.
I’m from a rural area and mainly lived in different small towns and villages but also lived in a big city here in Germany. It almost feels to me that divisiveness is less in rural areas here since diversity is generally lower and the few people who “look different” or migrated need to fit in more and kind of just grow into the community and are seen like everyone else (but this might just be my area) (I think communities in Germany are more centralized than decentralized like in America). Even though I’ve seen more open mindedness in cities, I’ve also seen more separation and inequality there.
I think like you mentioned wealth disparity is probably a big factor and I get that this is more extreme in America (especially if you have this turbo capitalism) and they need someone to stick it to.