The article tries to backdoor an emotionally resonant populist political view in the guise of concern. If you think it does a good job answering the question, that probably just means that you have a converging viewpoint.
Yeah, nothing is persuasive. Everything simply confirms or disconfirms what you already know. There is no learning. I will die knowing what I knew yesterday.
Life is shit, eat Arby's. Am I following along?