When there is a void, fill it.
For example, here’s one, complete with helpful illustration:
In general, much of the U.S. population does not trust the large institutions that currently hold power over the system they live within. Naturally I’d argue they never should’ve trusted them in the first place, but the million dollar question is how to replace them with something that CAN be trusted.
BTW: whether the limitation of the top two responses to yourself & blood relatives was intentional or not makes a suggestion about a possible void-filler that would actually be worse than the status quo. Try to guess what it is.
Monarchy?
Do I get a cookie?
True, that would obviously be worse, but that wasn’t the one I was thinking of.
Guess I haven’t followed where you’ve tried to lead, then…
What I had in mind was the culture war crap that normally distracts people from their state-sanctioned robbery boiling over into pure fascism.
“Blame the Other” has always been around. The only backstop between that and “..so let’s kill the Other” is the right rhetoric. There’s a reason (other than the obvious one of the head of the empire being black, of course) that the ranks of hate groups are expanding…
In a word, tribalism. Now I get it. And, yes, very ugly.