re: #9 HappyWarrior

Which will make things even more easier for Putin to exploit resentments. That’s what disturbs me about Trumpism and Brexit. This all suceeded in a period of economic prosperity. Imagine what will happen under economic depression.

I think the conditions aren’t that dissimilar. Under economic depression, people are angry, resentful, hopeless, and ready to latch on to any dictator that offers them a chance to validate their anger.

That’s exactly the condition that FOX created in Trumpers over the last 8-12 years. There’s no difference. For Trumpers, they may as well have been living in the Dust Bowl and undergoing systematic disappearance and torture at the hands of an oppressive regime. For them, their kids and friends were under constant threat of death or worse. Some were already being killed by the Democrats. Their poverty and despair was hopeless and never-ending. Their freedoms were completely eradicated and they lived in constant fear of brownshirts kicking in their doors.

The fact that none of this was actually true makes no difference. Facts and reality do not matter. In their world, all of this was true, and so they behaved just as people do when things really are that bad.

So no, I don’t think things will be worse when there is real economic depression. To those acting out of resentment, they were already there anyway.