Thread by @marcushjohnson

My take on our politics is that demographic change is slowly breaking our society—America was never designed to accommodate non whites with large amounts of political-cultural-economic power. Happening across the west but especially here.

https://twitter.com/ahmedbaba_/status/1454869376381997062

So you get extremely low trust in media and institutions (been falling since the Civil/Voting rights act in the 60s), rampant conspiracy theories (Birtherism, 5G-Covid, Election “fraud”) and political violence (1/6). Its all because of the same thing.

Racial hierarchy is as fundamental to the American experiment as democracy, actually probably way more so. Since it was here long before democracy was. To upset the racial hierarchical norms is, for many, to destroy what America is and represents.

So as the country continues to diversify and particularly as non whites continue to gain political/cultural/economic power, the low trust, conspiracies, and political violence will grow.