[crystal_revenge]

Stable societies fundamentally require increasingly large energy inputs. What we're seeing happening right now, in a large part, is due to a system whose complexity has exceed the available energy required to sustain it.

The idea that what we're seeing is because "too many people voted for the wrong guy" fails to recognize the larger condition for which all of this is merely emergent phenomena. We no longer have the resources to sustain the society we life in so it begins to uncomfortably revert to lower energy states in ways we haven't seen in a long time.

[simgt]

For anyone wanting to explore that topic, there's Nate Haggens: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/podcast Or in French, pretty much anything Jean-Marc Jancovici writes.

However both of them argue that a stable society can exist with stable energy inputs, but with much less than now.