Welp - we also agree on these points. My latest concern is about the influence of alt right and far right discourses on impressionable dummies like the Buffalo shooter. But of course there are several dangerous trends, as you note. The economic exploitation underlies so much of this, if not all of it.

Completely agree with you. Extreme polarized discourses have terrible influences on dummies, and the far right rhetoric is indeed chock full of it.