has there ever been a case before of half of a society organizing to confound by any means a project as anodyne as a wall on the border
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This happens all the time. See a lot of right-wing resistance to symbolic progressive social policies.
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It's also a relatively straightforward matter of public works expenditures. You think this is crazy, check out city-level meetings about eminent domain and highway/bridge/rail construction.
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Any time significant money on significant physical projects is proposed, you're gonna have 10-50% of the populace yelling BOONDOGGLE! WASTE! FRAUD! BRIDGE TO NOWHERE! TRAIN FOR THE HOMELESS! USELESS WALL!
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Even on a national level just rewind to, say, the Obamacare and http://Healthcare.gov rollout to see people losing their minds over... insurance and a website?
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I think this is what happens when the tribes that form a society start to have not only different goals, but opposite goals.
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We left normal behind before we were born.
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On one hand is the urge to riff on surreal dystopic conspiracies of subliminal cultural suicide, on the other hand I think people just think it's "icky" 'cause law & order types are mean.
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