The bipartisan divide has left many Americans in a state of mass alienation and high anxiety

The bipartisan divide, coupled with the danger of electing Donald Trump for a second time, has left many Americans in a state of mass alienation and high anxiety.

People of all parties are not psychologically feeling as connected or anchored to their local worlds as they once may have.

People are a bit colder, harder, meaner, and less empathetic than they were back in the late 1980s .

The Belonging Barometer shows that Americans are more likely than not to feel that they do not belong or are detached.

Frantz Fanon: Social alienation is about changing the social conditions or epidemiology of this alienation and moving societies beyond common indignities, gross inequities, and identity politics.