• FerretyFever0@fedia.io
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      18 hours ago

      The hike in the graph didn’t start with Trump. There are a LOT of things that we can blame that monster for. This, however, is not entirely his fault.

      I’d guess that it has to do with the fact, that quite frankly, most young people had their futures taken by previous generations. Trust in the government has been declining for decades. The economy has been getting worse and worse for the average person for a while. Politics have gotten more and more divisive because of the trend in which both the Democratic and Republican parties going further and further right, creating a sense of conflict and distrust towards our fellow citizens.

      Assuming that every single one of these problems is miraculously fixed, there’s still the problem with the climate having already suffered irreparable damage. So, yeah, tons of fucked up shit in the world, paired with significant personal problems like bullying and social isolation, as well as all of us being able to see every single shitty thing that happens, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t going up. Trump is a big part of several of those problems, to be fair.

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        9 hours ago

        likely it stemmed from 08, many people had no futures, even witha college degree except for certain emerging fields. and i dont think we truley recovered from it at all, certain fields like bio- and biotech likely was stagnant due to how they gatekeep hiring people. if you happened to visit any military forums about joining you notice a huge uptick in people trying to join being cannon fodder around economic turmoil.

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          9 hours ago

          trump is the latest and most severe symptom, he isnt the cause, he just part of a larger problem both initiated in cohesion by both parties, foreign billionaires, and state actors.