Polarization in the U.S. didn’t rise gradually. A new machine-learning study shows it surged after 2008- but why?

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    US citizens elected a change candidate who then proceeded to bail out the banks while people were going homeless, and the proceeded to hand over healthcare to insurance companies.

    Obama jaded a generation out of the concept that progress could be made through politics. They became ample fodder for the nativist/ auth right movements which would follow.

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      1 day ago

      The man made bank post presidency earning lucrative Netflix and Spotify deals and hanging out on Richard Branson’s yacht.

      Just goes to show you which side he was on when banks went under