These are very serious issues, but I wouldn't feel hopeless about it. Perhaps it's my lifestyle, but I talk to all kinds of people all the time when I'm out and about, and the majority are very happy/friendly. I don't see this conflict.

The problem with our 24/7 news channels (which suck), and social media is that for some things they blow them up to be much larger than they really are. They also create division. We are a divided country especially online and according to cable "news" , but my experience in real life doesn't play out that way.

Our government is broken. I think that's a reality. But I also believe that ties in with social media and our 24/7 news culture. They are the primary driver for this mess.

Personally my main concerns are our dysfunctional government and/or war. After that I have the same concerns we've probably had for decades now: Healthcare, help for the poor, homelessness etc.

The internet has allowed fringe (name your subject) to move to the front row these days. More people than ever are exposed to what used to be considered radical 10-20 years ago. They're also able to calcify these new ideas inside their bubble, which feeds them confirmation bias all day long. Some really ugly things have been reborn because of this. But I still don't think it's that dire. I don't feel it's that much of a threat to our society. Most people want to work, provide for their family, and be healthy IMO.

He's so predictable.  Every time he demands evidence, when it's produced he writes up a 700 word tirade to try and take you off subject. That's his MO.

Various studies put up that say right wing domestic terror is more of a threat in America, and that Federal law enforcement are more concerned about right wing terrorists than Islamic. He dismisses everything, then demands answers to questions nobody is asking.

I guess I'll email everybody who put together those studies and tell them how stupid they are, since Flagg knows everything, even more than them. He also dismissed an "op-ed" which is based on these same studies.

I don't think anybody would claim she was a Nazi, or what they did with her flag was acceptable.

These are Neo Nazis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIpE1B7BTvk

This, is a Nazi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7FPmojhEeE

Fuck these guys.

Talk about disingenuous.

They chant Nazi slogans, salute like Nazis, praise Hitler, hate Jews, dress like Nazis and call themselves Nazis...

These types of talking points are being perpetrated by the gutter of the American right.

Conservative representatives across this country have come out to condemn this group of white nationalists. They wouldn't for a moment get bogged down in the false equivalency with antifa. Not for a second. In fact they chided Trump for doing it. Nor would they question if they were "really" Nazis or "really" confederates.

The problem with you guys is that you've had Fox News drilled into your heads for 15+ years and this is the only way you're capable of thinking. It is no coincidence that they're saying the same thing.

Figured this was coming...

Edit:

It sure seems as if Trump is burning his allies. He's lashing out at a lot of GOP Congressmen, they are also speaking out about him. His inner circle seems to be tightening down. The business community is walking away from him. James Murdoch just donated a million dollars to the anti defamation league after denouncing Trump's reaction to the Nazi rally. With Bannon gone, the Breitbart crowd may not be far behind.

I don't see how he pulls out of this, it appears to be a downward trajectory.