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Why Is Everyone Angry? I’ll Tell You Why.
This is a short essay on voter anger: its origin, its attributes, its meaning and its cure. Hint: most Americans are worse off than they were a long time ago.
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It seems a bit simplistic to make the entire thing about economic anger. It's not just that. The thing is, at least for me that there are a lot of serious issues, and no one really seems to get them, and we're wanting to find an answer to get out. It's Isis, it's TPP, it's fracking, and it's Ukraine. This entire age is unsettling, because not only are the problems serious and the stakes high, we dont have answers. If we had answers, we'd do those things.
Oh, it's still about economics. My civics teacher pointed out that people don't really revolt until they're hungry. I have yet to see his observation fail after thirty years. People in the US aren't hungry yet but we've had a closer look at how little it would take to make it happen. It makes people nervous, which tends to produce chaotic election results. So I think Mr. GrayGra is closer to the truth than not.