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am_Unition  ·  1140 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This model forecast the US's current unrest a decade ago. It now says 'civil war'

Personally, I doubt we've reached peak disorder.

The Jan. 6th insurrection attempt wasn't a one-day event, it is ongoing. Trust in our electoral system is actively being undermined by the GOP, who are free to lie with impunity about non-existent voter fraud while they simultaneously devise technically legal ways to guarantee themselves a much higher likelihood of "winning" the next presidential election, should they be unable to clinch the electoral college votes. The radicalization of the GOP permitting this is also ongoing.

Fundamentally, though, just about the entire world is reconsidering the relationship between society and government. I think the rate of technological advance has outpaced our ability to effectively address the complexities of modern life through policy. Tech-based disruption has been used by the wealthy and autocratic to further increase the wealth gap and undermine the entire concept of what a government should be and do. And they're not done. Unfettered greed knows no bounds.