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There was a very good article in this weeks Economist, "America is Uniquely Ill-suited to Handle a Falling Population" that discusses the hollowing out of big areas of the country, the despair that's brought, and how that convinces some people to turn to MAGA just searching for someone to pay attention to their plight.

There are undoubtedly a lot of people in the prosperous coastal regions and the upper reaches of the income brackets who spend a lot of time complaining about trifles. There's a whole other population that they never see, who can't think about trifles because they're just trying to make it to tomorrow.

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/04/18/america-is-uniquely-ill-suited-to-handle-a-falling-population

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