Perhaps, Ms. Fawcett, although not as light-hearted a topic as "politics driving one to drink", is the more pertinent topic for conversation about the epidemic of opioid use, which exploded under the Obama administration and continued to this day.

Researchers have placed a lot of the blame, on the state of the economy with so many unemployable people who have become hopeless in living a productive life. Automation will be taking more jobs away from humans in the future, and the jobs that will be available are low paying and not keeping up with the rate of inflation that the government insists doesn't exist.

Since Americans, according to polls, have lost faith in the two party status-quo political system, and no renaissance of jobs on the horizon, I would think, that Americans will be more than drinking away their problems in the future.