I dunno, duderz. I've got nothin'. We're absolutely headed further down the rabbit hole of extreme political polarization, racial tension, and speculative economic foundations.

The ultimate conspiracy theorist in me hypothesizes that this was all by design, that the eventual outcome is a post-political landscape in which the only way to stay sane is to abstain from participating in governance at any level (that's, like, what theyyyyy want, man). The optimist in me thinks that this is all an unavoidable stage in the maturation of the internet. I know we'll trudge through the challenges, one way or the other. Either way, we need to start seriously re-examining how society ingests, processes, and responds to information. Looks like Russia has beaten us to the punch, at least domestically. But I do wonder about the scale and success of our own intelligence agencies' presumably similar operations abroad.

Rural America is going to lose the information war to their educated urban counterparts. In many ways, they already have, but they're gonna do their damnedest to ruin allllllll the nice things on their way to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. And again, liberal/urban America has plenty of issues, but once they get past the identity politics thing, the wheels that have been spinning might begin to grip some pavement.

Spoiler: We're going to have to embrace cold (emphasis - BORING) statistics in our efforts, because emotionally-laden rhetoric is currently blowing out the nation's proverbial gaskets. And which group of folx have shown the most disdain (on top of a lack of a basic understanding) for unbiased, numerically-inclined analyses? Welp, Roy Moore and his ilk, for starters. And hey, a lot of the dumbest people are dying (sorry, grandma).

Cheers! :D