Why are people turning on each other rather than those running the country?

[Daisy03]

On threads lately it seems to be an absolute race to the bottom.
There's the pay rise thread where we have people bickering about public or private sector pay rises.
There's the thread about the squeezed middle which has a bit of benefit bashing along with a bit of north south divide arguing.
Any time people are striking for job conditions that leads to more bickering.
Any thread about salary ends up in competitive misery and some posters expecting everyone to be happy with any small scrap.
Is this what happens in a financial downturn? Everyone just blames each other? What about government who don't seem to actually be doing anything at the moment?

Lack of empathy I think and somewhat divide and conquer.

Divide and conquer.

Personally I think all workers deserve a pay rise in line with inflation and benefits should increase by that much as well.

I’m another one who only sees this on MN.
In real life most people have a bit of a grumble then get on with it.

I think MN is an insight into what people are thinking but not necessarily voicing to others IRL.

Scratch below the surface friendliness and there is sadly a lot of bigotry, bias, prejudice, xenophobia and selfishness around.

Popular media feeds off this. Political parties feed off it. PMs are voted in off this.

Brexit, UKIP etc didn't happen independently of the population. It happened with the support of many.

On the plus side I also see a lot kindness, attempts to help others, empathy, altruism. Even in London where all the evil people live.