The changes can be demographics and engineering, but mostly the former. Hearing what my peers in europe are saying is really sobering, many of them are minorities in their own communities now. It’s going to take a few more decades for these changes to have a significant voice politically. The main demographic change that will signal the struggle will be when the boomers die off or become politically and economically incapacitated. Then the galvanization of society will surely surface.
Effort is discouraged because we don’t want to waste our efforts on foregone conclusions. Since fewer workers are retiring, upward mobility is being hampered. Since pensions are becoming less of a certainty, job loyalty is being downplayed. Many of us live under the assumption that you must play the game for yourself to win, and that attempts to sacrifice this will be taken advantage of.
Mass indoctrination will switch modes if Trumps momentum is gained upon.
My son has a german girl who would like to emigrate on his list of friends, and my daughter’s in laws have a raft of people from the low countries who have married in.
Mass indoctrination will switch modes if Trumps momentum is gained upon.