[Maru]

Originally Posted by bots

I hate to say it, but politicians always reflect the people in the country. Throughout all the 2nd term Trump madness, Trump's support consistently holds at 40%. It may not be the majority, but it's still a huge chunk of the american people. Also, this is not a new phenomenon; they have always held these views, it's just they have been enabled now

It's going off topic, but I wouldn't oversimplify our problems down to what that 40% believes (or doesn't). To try to keep it simple, America has been hyper-fixated on race (and gender, etc) for as long as I've been aware of such things. I don't see a big difference between the left and right wing in the US. I really don't. In fact, the more time goes on I only see more similarities and that's especially true with the execution of their politics.

There was a time in my life it would've been a dream to have gone abroad to someplace that didn't have such hyper-fixations, especially on anything related to an individual veneer ("Aren't I/we so virtuous??") While we could once claim to be experts on such things (through multiculturalism), so little of that seemed to translate to helping us deal with such difficulty topics in reality. None of that is surprising. I never thought our handling of big topics was handled sensitively. Rather such expertise is always portrayed in a narcissistic manner and that tends to dress up one's superior qualities over any deficiencies.

Don't get me wrong, I love my country. There's traits I'm quite fond of. However, self-awareness isn't one of them. I don't know that the left or the right realize just how alike they are. Hopefully that made sense.