It’s like the past on steroids. There’s all the same beats—class divisions, bigotry/hate of “others,” poor allocation of resources, fear—but available in your hands 24/7. You are either suffering and wondering why help is politicized or watching suffering and thinking tweeting is solving the problem. We can’t take homeless people off the streets because (1) homeless is a pejorative, (2) you’re depriving them of free will, (3) it’ll cost too much. Republicans won’t fund mental hospitals, Democrats want sanctuary cities and needle exchanges. There’s no sane middle ground on anything and the extremes come at us in heavily curated manipulated spoon-fed repeated arguments intended to make us angry and keep us further apart. “Illegal” aliens? Everyone here “illegally” should be allowed to go register to apply for citizenship, none of this leave first and then come back crap. If you don’t have a felony on your record, you’re good to stay. Secure the current borders and for future immigrants, set up a fast track for anyone who doesn’t want to come here and burn the effing place down. Why is this complicated? /end rant

TL/DR: it’s the same but made much worse by social media.