General Discussion

It created mass confusion and error. The cray cray and the rationalizable, plausible cray cray broke containment.

I see folks like Trump, Fuentes, and Piker as "mongers." Did they start it? No. They're just feeding on it. It was really, really bad well before them.

I didn't really start to notice the blue skin lesions and unexplained weight loss in the body politic until George W. Bush assumed office (which is why I joined DU). I think it predates Dubya by at least a century or two, but he is a sort of common ancestor of the predators who feed on the crashed out, normal folks. He sped it up dramatically, imo.The simple folks and the wiser, burnt, experienced folks really just want to sit in an inner tube with a beer hat and a fishing pole (well, I do anyway), but the world keeps "improving."