[quote=@Shoryu Magami]
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While I'm not American, that's always the vibe I got from the state your (you presumably are) politics're in. It's one of he reasons why anytime some sort of discussion comes up about 'are you republic or democratic' or 'are you conservative or liberal', I'm never able to really go into it because I see both sides as flawed and the system fundamentally broken. I'm too much of a reconstructionist/deconstructionist in my philosophical analysis to be able to ever 'follow a side' in a situation -- I only follow my own terms.

This is probably more serious of a discussion than was the point of the thread though, but, eh, I'm not gonna hold it against myself for spamming in a shitposting thread. Anyway, just woke up, so I'm gonna get something to eat.
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It's sort of built into the system. In some ways what is happening now is more a return to the norm than a deviation. There are a lot of situations, economic and political, where we aren't so much treading new territory as returning to the system as it was before World War 2. Because yeh, the economic instability, the vicious political division, the rabid editorial media, these are all mainstays of American society that just sort of faded into the background at the end of the twentieth century when we had sustained economic growth all across the board.