Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 28 2020 05:40pm)
This explanation that the voter realignment of 2016 only came down to the rhetoric of the two candidates falls completely flat once you look beyond the United States. Fact of the matter is that the same trends have been playing out all across the industrialized world. In Europe, Australia and even Japan, you see the same trends in recent years: working-class and rural voters trending toward conservative parties, particularly nationalist and/or populist ones; and college-educated voters from upscale regions trending toward the left-wing or green parties.
The common denominator, in my opinion, is that the political sphere is increasingly polarized between those who benefit (economically and culturally) from globalization and those who are hurt by it. Societies have already been divided by winners and loser of globalization, and now, this trend is also seeping into politics.
"the story of" i meant to say the headline and shortest snippet explanation. there is not short story of the world and of course globalization is a worldwide event. many of the outsourcing, automation, cultural blending and erasing, and centralizing and pooling of money and control worldwide will cause ripples for a while to come. trump is only the spearhead of america, and came about in most simple terms imo as i described them. imagine someone asked for a few sentences on how hitler rose to power, u cant and can simplify it.