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Christians were tolerant, and that's where the social trust came in. They were tolerant of those they still saw as their own. One side decided they weren't Christian anymore, which was one thing. Then they decided they weren't just non-Christian, but anti-Christian. Then they decided that whiteness (not necessarily white people, but kind of) was the problem. A smaller segment wasn't just non-white, but blatantly anti-white. Another small segment wasn't just non-straight, but effectively anti-straight. Then another segment decided they weren't capitalist anymore, but seize the means of production anti-capitalists. The right wing has its fair share of insanity and intolerance, but nearly all of these newly held philosophies on morality and economics and race are all on the Democratic side.
We were a flawed unit that, despite our differences, saw each other as part of the same group because we all basically had the same moral, and somewhat social, and somewhat cultural foundations. That rug was completely ripped out from under our society. We decided to teach our kids critical thinking for years, and boy are they critical now, of everything. They grasp onto ideas over material reality. Hop on over to reddit if you need a reminder of how important critical thinking (critical theory) is to those people.
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