Have things gotten really worse, or have I just become an Old Fart?

[Egalitarian Thug]

16. Everything is worse, much worse. You have a decade on me, so I'm not sure about the old fart, part.

What makes it much worse is the fact that it's been getting worse more slowly for about half a century, but the last 10 - 15 years have been the avalanche.

For those of us old enough to remember the before time, it is much more obvious because the world we grew up and lived in has been relegated to mythology by those too young or too dumb to grasp the scope of what's happened, or those committed to the decimation of our nation for their own gain, but we lived it, so we know it existed. I can't even imagine the mental contortions required of those born after 1970, they've never seen the world that was and only know some version of this schizophrenic nightmare we are all living through.

Sometime in the last 20 years or so, we crossed the line. The course is set and the destination is inevitable.