There's an overall loss of confidence in the shitty economic and political system. Look at Texas as a great example of the failings of this pile of garbage. I don't think it's possible to analyze what happened there by the way--there's too many liars involved.
A likely cause, IMO, is the national level mafia government used the weather as a pretext to shut power off and wreak havoc. It's also possible that general incompetence and corruption--e.g. pinching pennies on vital infrastructure to make "profit"--is a contributing factor. It seems unlikely that the utility companies don't have huge safety factors on their infrastructure, but maybe they did cut corners to save dollars and waste billions.
I've got a shit load of blog posts on the general topic of building a more and more fragile system in the name of "efficiency", i.e. transferring wealth to scumbag executives and financial parasites. There's on "House of Cards and Pile of Cards" that's a summary of this issue. "There's no Economy of Scale" is another one.
The US economy and corporate system is a pile of shitty scams and schemes. It's basically a system of overt warfare by the few against the many. A handful of oligarchs push stupid agendas using the resources of the nation. The infrastructure falls apart while they push a jetsons future of stupid gadgets and new e-scams. They're human cancers--termites, rot in a log, whatever.
Continuing down the road that's being laid out by them will be a fatal mistake for millions of people, unfortunately. The system, which provides apparent comfort and easy life has made so many into completely dysfunctional dependents. This dependence breeding is by design.
It seems like there's going to be a hard sorting of wheat and tares in the next years. Look at the "future" that Billy Gates is trying to sell. It's a sort of tech douche utopia of electric cars, "too cheap to meter" no this time, I mean it, really safe this time, and really effective this time nuclear power, and vat meat. In that weird dude's mind, replacing the entire economy with his scams and schemes will be green and beneficial. That world probably appeals to the most dependent people on this shit system.
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