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Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture
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What's GOP, if I may ask?
Forgive my jadedness, I just get the feeling that maybe you're automatically assuming we're all in the USA and thus this GOP is a thing that we've heard of, and that this situation (which of course affects us all across the western world) is somehow caused by GOP, suggesting that the USA are somehow in charge of us all, and that they have much deeper control and influence in our nations than they actually do.
I know, that's a pretty cynical assumption, I'm jaded, and shouldn't just assume you're talking about the USA. Maybe GOP is a German thing, or Canadian, or Irish?
I did mean the US GOP party but there are analogues in other English speaking countries, such as the Tories in the UK. Generally any country that Rupert Murdoch has setup shop in is going to suffer from these same problems.
It's unclear exactly what region of the world the article was written about, but being US focused seems like a reasonably safe assumption. While it does say it's based on analysis of English texts and mentions Britain, the piece that's linked to was hosted on a US based site by a writer that seems to post mostly US based articles. UK could also be a possibility though, the website does have a UK edition and the author does occasionally post UK focused pieces as well.
Lastly while the US might not be in charge of other countries, it definitely has an outsized influence in English speaking countries due to the prevalence and popularity of US media. Finally be it Fox News in the US, Sky News in Australia, or News International in the UK, through Rupert Murdoch the same political ideology that has driven the US conservatives for the past half century is also steering conservative parties in other English speaking countries.
It’s an acronym for some reason for the Republican Party, don’t ask me what it means
Grand Ole Party, an old moniker, but I'm unsure of its origin.