General Discussion

I think we’re just waking up to the level of insane people in politics and why it’s so hard to govern with the non-rationals jumping around.

How many there are. No critical thinking skills. Not even a grip on reality. There are so many of them! How did the U.S. population ever get to the point where it accommodated so many people who are this dysfunctional?

I'm surmising that certain occupational groups saw this coming a long time ago: police, for example.

It had to be in the last 10 years because as a teacher in public universities, I would have seen it.

trump's go-to dysfunction is denial. That alone has captured the MAGATs, who are around 32%, or were. It's the world of Just Pretend--and the stupidity not to realize there are consequences of that down the road. A good example of that is the Labor Secretary getting fired for reporting accurate statistics. At the time that happened, there were numerous op-ed pieces on the dangers of the government providing false statistics.