I think that one thing that can explain much about the United States right now is unresolved corporate trauma that has built up over years and manifests in fear, distrust, and anger with the government. The trauma started with the assignations of John F Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr, spread significantly by
the war in Vietnam, the war on drugs in the United States and to date culminated on 9/11 it's on follow wars. Gen X and subsequent generations grew up in the stew of these traumas while the Baby Boomers were the first affected and the first to react. You could say there is a line between those taking advantage of the trauma and those trapped by the trauma.
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