One million percent true!! I often remark that the world before Covid and the world after Covid are like two radically different places. Nobody ever seems to disagree with this. And it certainly wasn’t a change for the better because we never went back to “normal.”
I have ALSO noticed this situation! Logic and reason have seemed to vanish with the younger generations, it seems. Somebody they trust makes a comment and they believe it completely, even if it is completely wrong. They do not seem to be motivated to see “disconnects” and try to see why they happen. One trusted person says something, they believe it. Somebody else says something different on the same subject, THAT person is automatically “the enemy”, by observation. NO “expansion of their database” out of curiosity.
I engages with a Facebook operative who termed Democrats “commies” (which seems to be the Republican/Trump’s last use of a word in a manner it should not be used in). I posed the question, “Does that make Trump’s buddy Putin a Democrat?” His reply was that Putin was more pro-American than Democrats were. THAT is the mindset we are dealing with! When long-term enemies of the USA, who want to see us fail, are deemed to be “more American” than the people next door who do not agree with Trump. A former Russian communist party operative was correct when he said THEY could take over the USA without firing a shot (said in about 1962). And THEY think THEY are “normal” and everybody else is s mortal enemy. I am not sure how to fix their heads!
One million percent true!! I often remark that the world before Covid and the world after Covid are like two radically different places. Nobody ever seems to disagree with this. And it certainly wasn’t a change for the better because we never went back to “normal.”
I have ALSO noticed this situation! Logic and reason have seemed to vanish with the younger generations, it seems. Somebody they trust makes a comment and they believe it completely, even if it is completely wrong. They do not seem to be motivated to see “disconnects” and try to see why they happen. One trusted person says something, they believe it. Somebody else says something different on the same subject, THAT person is automatically “the enemy”, by observation. NO “expansion of their database” out of curiosity.
I engages with a Facebook operative who termed Democrats “commies” (which seems to be the Republican/Trump’s last use of a word in a manner it should not be used in). I posed the question, “Does that make Trump’s buddy Putin a Democrat?” His reply was that Putin was more pro-American than Democrats were. THAT is the mindset we are dealing with! When long-term enemies of the USA, who want to see us fail, are deemed to be “more American” than the people next door who do not agree with Trump. A former Russian communist party operative was correct when he said THEY could take over the USA without firing a shot (said in about 1962). And THEY think THEY are “normal” and everybody else is s mortal enemy. I am not sure how to fix their heads!