re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

product of two things:

an electorate that felt alienated and fed up with politicians and politics as usual

a GOP that was willing to make a deal with the devil to get those people to vote for them

Yes but that’s a superficial explanation, with all due respect. The roots of the current ills are to be found in the US Civil War or rather the fact that there was no “desouthernizing” the South afterward. In effect, the US is undergoing a Cold Civil War right now.