the double edge sword of technology cuts both ways. Social media has become a raging shitstorm of racist hate. Meanwhile, a video of people acting out that hatred went viral and became the cornerstone of evidence for the successful prosecution of said racist haters.
I find with the internet, social media in particular, but YouTube and others as well, it tends to magnify propensities, other than regular news reporting you don't get much hate, unless you are looking for it. Then a trickle rapidly becomes a flood, as algorithms kick in and the alternate universe of thinly veil lies comes pouring in. Most people believe what they want to and have to bypass a lot of legitimate journalism to get to it, it's mostly fear mongering opinion and spin, based on real events, but distorted out of all context. Social media and a for profit disinformation system has added to the problem of tribalism in the loosely regulated American media market. We are seeing these problems of globalization and xenophobia almost everywhere as people react to threats to their native cultures and mass immigration. All of this shit is riding on top of historic racism and xenophobia in the USA as it becomes less of a melting pot and more of a multicultural society.
I also think some of the underemployment problems are related to a dramatic curtailing of immigration, most of the places that are having issues retaining employees traditionally depended on immigrants. Other than inflation and supply chain issues, the US economy is doing fine and I hope this is reflected in Biden's poll numbers in the coming months. I think he's doing as good a job as he can, while keeping an eye on 2022, if you can win then, then everything to help fix the country can be driven through in 6 months to a year. Donald has yet to face the music and I expect that will shake things up considerably. Also a half dozen GOP members of congress might end up convicted of conspiracy to commit sedition along with a bunch of others. The closer to the election the shit hits the fan the better for the democrats and the country.