Alienated America Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse

Timothy P. Carney wrote about this in his book Alienated America.

but if you were to go into right wing circles there's this great book by uh Timothy Carney called alienated America which looks into how many conservative white rural-based Americans voted for Trump or why they voted for Trump in the 2016 primary so not in the general election in the primary when they had other Republicans they could vote for and he argues that the reason why the people who voted for Trump voted for him was because they were suffering from incredible amounts of alienation and he traced it back to an experience of you could actually see which counties that voted for let's say Trump over Mitt Romney these were counties that were more likely suffering from alcoholism and deaths of despair and an opioid crises and things of that nature the disruption of civic institutional life etc

And it's not behind me right now, I just looked, but the book that's behind me sometimes is called Alienated America by Tim Carney.

a hyper individualized capitalism is currently taking us toward a world where workers are available when needed but no lasting attachment is formed

the tendency to attribute to decadent elites social phenomena really located among the working class and the inclination to, quote, blame cultural shifts away from the traditional norms on highly educated, wealthy white liberals.

a hyper individualized capitalism is currently taking us toward a world where workers are available when needed but no lasting attachment is formed

And that was what I wrote about an alienated America going forward the biggest consequence of this and the biggest problem we have is that people aren't getting married and having kids.

Alienated America talked about how people are you know kind of not not making friends and not finding those social circles so how do we get people together again really belonging to other things is the key.

So I think your book alienated America really leads to family on friendly policies I'm sure you've thought of this right it's uh those two things sort of go hand in hand um and I think solving one or working on solving one helps to solve the other which like so how do you suggest people start I guess is how do we get over these problems.