Okay, we know it doesn't work for me. And it doesn't seem to have a foundation in knowledge or good sense.
My interpretation. It's a cry of despair. The American idea of unlimited freedom and nearly unlimited land has run its course. Now folks have to live within the constraints of being side by side: they can damage one another and the environment by expressing themselves without limit. Wealth isn't so easy to come by. There's a perception that other people are milking the system.
The country is trying to operate, like everywhere else, within constraints.
Hard process for a people that thought they were escaping social rules. They deliberately picked a guy who was a destroyer of worlds.
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