Every few decades, a generation of young people looks at the world their parents built and decides it needs a serious overhaul. The hippies did it with flowers and folk songs in the 1960s. Gen Z is doing it with smartphones and hashtags right now. The tools are different, the urgency is the same, and the establishment is just as uncomfortable about it.

Seven prime ministers in roughly ten years. A housing crisis nobody can solve. A Brexit that promised sunlit uplands and delivered a trade barrier at Dover. Britain is not having a bad decade. Britain is having a reckoning it has been postponing since roughly 1945, and the bill is finally due.

Alan Greenspan spent decades as the most powerful economist on earth, genuflecting at the altar of Ayn Rand and insisting that banks would regulate themselves because self-interest was its own kind of wisdom. Then the 2008 financial crisis happened, and he sat before Congress and admitted, more or less, that he had been wrong. It was a remarkable moment of honesty. It just came about twenty years too late.

When Trump threatened to end birthright citizenship, it wasn’t just a headline-grabber—it was a flare shot over the bow of a sinking ship. We’re not watching immigration policy evolve; we’re watching it unravel into a civilizational panic. And the panic isn’t new. It’s the same one that’s been weaponized time and time again to keep the powerless fighting among themselves while the powerful cash their checks, hire undocumented workers, and blame brown babies for the chaos. Sound familiar? It should. This is America’s oldest grift, repackaged for the golden age of racism.

Humans tend to craft tidy narratives to explain history and current affairs as if events unfold predictably due to understandable causes and effects.

What is increasingly obvious is the dark side that is engulfing the internet and is spreading inaccuracies, falsehoods and propaganda to an unsuspecting audience.

What is increasingly obvious is the dark side that is engulfing the internet and is spreading inaccuracies, falsehoods and propaganda to an unsuspecting audience.

Nova Scotia is a Canadian province of around 1,000,000 people and our home county in Florida has half that. But it is the public behavior in Florida that left much to be desired this time around.

This election in 2020 will undoubtedly come down to the turn out and the voting pattern of women.