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The New Year and Observations of the Future
I know everybody likes the year in review stories. Instead, this is a year to come story. We all know that there will be unexpected stories, and tragedies as well. One of those tragedies, because we live in the United States, will be more school shootings. And as the year goes by, we will also have more mass shootings in general.
One of the reasons is quite obvious, the wide availability of guns, there is something more going on. And this is the fact that the great economy we live in has not benefited the swaths of our population. Desperate people will look for reasons and for somebody to blame.
This is why you are seeing a sharp increase in antisemitic attacks, and anti-minority attacks, etcetera. And sadly, the President of the United States is not going to speak against them. It’s gotten to the point that we know teleprompter Trump does not mean it. They are more like hostage videos than let us unify the country against this.
We are as a society not dealing with the panoply of reasons people are radicalizing, and where. The income divide, having to work three jobs, and populism are a toxic mixture. Add to that places online where people can go and anonymously learn every conspiracy theory you could ever dream of. These include antisemitic theories as well as white supremacy, or lesser-known Black Israelites.