The most absurd thing is that cutting and 'automating' all the manufacturing abroad didn't actually give us a substantial improvement in living standards.
Are our appliances substantially cheaper than they were in 2011? Are they of better quality? Can anyone truly say that
This is what people don't get; sure, the politicos themselves might be 'reasonable people', but the people who work as aides and interns are full-on ideologues.
Communism isn't some kind of religious movement (though it can be), but rather than the technological optimization of the human race.
A communist wouldn't say that an iPhone or X is evil, but that communism would do it even better.
(I am not a communist)
This is an ideology that pushes teenagers suffering from alienation to further entrench themselves into a community whose only common theme is its own alienation combined with ever increasing and harmful rituals that only serve to increase the divide.
It's people like you who
Perhaps it being 97% Sunni Muslim could have something to do with it. Wide-scale basis for unity. Queen is Palestinian, too - so that helps.
It's not magic, it's just demographics