When Trump-like figures get a lot of support in the developing world, I can pretend it's just a sign of pre-modern, illiterate medievalism..
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But when a guy like him gets double-digit support in a supposedly developed, modern country that I chose to immigrate to...that's depressing
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I mean the US isn't a country with massive illiteracy, poverty, ayatollahs running amok and entrenched religion-based caste warfare...
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With the huge (perhaps crippling) exceptions of slavery and Native American genocide, the US in many ways was an experiment in Humanity 2.0
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In 1776, the experiment started without the burden of a big chunk of the civilizational baggage and demons of Humanity 1.0
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yup... it can seem like that sometimes, but when you've experienced the real thing you realize how much better this is
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look Step away for a while and look at it from a different angle. Trees and forests.
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1) We have some major "Third World-like" deficits: large pockets of poverty, struggling edu system, extreme political polarization...
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2) ...rising inequality, inflammatory media to rival any religious zealot, class-based caste system + very complex racial dynamics
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