of rude comedians like Don Rickles and later tv shows like The Simpsons and South Park. Thereafter, emerged a colder, nastier lack of common courtesy and an omnipresent age of insults. People these days, especially political leaders like Trump, Kenney, Greene, Boebert, Danielle Smith, redneck groups, and convoy truckers think nothing of making mean-spirited politically incorrect remarks and doing cruel public things to others.
All that sets up ignorant bullies like Trump, Greene and Smith to gather followers of the lowest common denominator, ultimately facilitating dangerous insurrections, Hitler-like dictatorships and autocracies to defraud decent, civilized folks of their democracies and hard-earned legitimate rights. Thereby trampling on the real freedoms of our societies as opposed to illegitimately acting on the dumbass ‘freedoms’ they imagine, fantasize and merely foist on everyone else.
There are far too many people who don’t think rationally these days; who are cruel and violent toward others. These are people who have lost their way big-time and don’t appreciate the benefits of mutual civility, respect, civilized institutions, and peaceful countries.
In the West, we should all learn to relax more, to check our egos and agendas, to use common sense and reason, to be more kind and civil toward others, and to appreciate all the good things we enjoy daily and automatically take for granted in our lives and democracies.