11-12-2018, 12:39 PM
(11-12-2018, 02:17 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(11-04-2018, 04:09 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:(11-04-2018, 01:25 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Things are getting ugly. Donald Trump is not helping things calm down.
But we had been a very stressful society long before Trump hit the White House. It began really around the mid-1980s when the speeded up pace of life really kicked in.
I blame Reagan and those of his mindset. The Trump crowd is basically the same as the Reagan crowd.
But that crowd has gotten worse over time.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.