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"We are 30 years after NAFTA and the political and social instability created by the birth of a globalized economy is still increasing. Not great, Bob"

This is true, but it's also true that we in the US have done essentially nothing to mitigate it. The response for a good 10 years after from the powers that be was basically "too bad, so sad, they'll adapt." Even after it became clear that huge regions of the country haven't, in fact, adapted, you still have one party who wants to answer by teaching 55 year olds who live apart from all technical infrastructure to code, while the other party promises to overturn economic reality and bring back coal while making Them suffer. None of that is an answer. At some point our society stopped believing that anything other than the passage of time can fix our problems. *That's* why everyone is despairing and fascists are getting loud. And that's the problem we need to be attacking.

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