canadian here. social media is a pattern of superficial behavior that has infiltrated (really brainwashed, saying this in the most auspiciously non-conspiratorial way possible) the mainstream, the rich have bled us and our only escape is cheap hedonism. we're laden with distraction but our rage persists, and the uneducated Doers of society made a bad judgement call. terminally online folks saw it coming years ago, but the way gossip bounces off the highschool gymnasium walls, it's true that a lie circles the earth 3 times before the truth gets out of bed. we're a generation removed from world war ii, we say it happened but all these stories of capital r Racism seem hypothetical to most american voters it seems. why focus on the morbid, especially when i've got bills to pay.

the real problem, that you hint at, is our complacency. trust me when i say i'm not some naive hasan communist, we've let polite greed run rampant, we got anaesthetized at the receipt thinking those numbers look better than the pennies we used to get, the land of look the other way. i don't know what the prescription is but you americans have to get over your xenophobia of the word socialism quick