[PaulHoule]

The empathy gap goes the other way too. Some rich guy was bitching on CNBC that he didn't feel appreciated. When I was in grad school and a Linux zealot he thought that Microsoft was a great company because it empowered him to make his business work.

The political system is dominated by the 1%, but if you can really piss off 50% of voters you can cause a crisis. I think ordinary people in the U.S. are experiencing "future shock" and that is what drives them to Sanders and Trump -- no conventional politician can put together a story that makes sense at all.

[crimsonalucard]

nah nothing goes wrong when voters are pissed off. Voters can only choose between two candidates who are basically proxies for quarrelling rich people.