Darnton

Because the powers pulling in the negative direction has a much easier job than the powers pulling in a positive direction. The negative powers just has to play to peoples stupidity, fear and hatred. Simple black and white “solutions” (ie. just fault the outgroups for everything).

The positive powers have to stick to complex and often longterm solutions which requires effort and thought for people to understand the benefits of.

ITT: Lots of people who doesn’t know which community they are commenting in.

Because they control the stream of disinformation to their voters. Their voters don’t actually live in the real world, but in a fantasy scenario dreamed up by Republican talking heads.

I’m pretty sure it is ragebait written by an American. Non-Americans don’t really care about this at all.

GDP is an incredible useless way to measure average wealth.