I think the key to the current sorry state of the nation is association, or the lack thereof.
Overall, we're increasingly isolated from people with different attitudes, values and beliefs. Suburbanites fear to go into the cities, and city dwellers don't trust the people from the suburbs who don't understand them and their problems. There's a whole lot of distrust going around, and the people who drive wedges into the social fabric to win votes are benefiting from the overall lack of association ourside of insular groups.
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I think the key to the current sorry state of the nation is association, or the lack thereof.
Overall, we're increasingly isolated from people with different attitudes, values and beliefs. Suburbanites fear to go into the cities, and city dwellers don't trust the people from the suburbs who don't understand them and their problems. There's a whole lot of distrust going around, and the people who drive wedges into the social fabric to win votes are benefiting from the overall lack of association ourside of insular groups.