Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
But it's becoming clear that that doesn't really help. The cycle of action and reaction is just ending up reinforcing everyone's positions. Thus, otherwise sane 'progressives' are now going along with the lunatic fringe for fear of being seen to be on the same side as Trump.

It's getting me down, m.
There is one very obvious reason for this. You are getting old.

This is how your parents felt about bum bandits. The world hasn't gone mad- you have just reached an age where the generation beneath you are starting to shape the cultural/political/moral debate and it seems like *******s to you.

THis is why people get more right wing (socially conservative) when they get older.

I blame my parents for inventing youth culture