Were people always this shitty
yes
- and maybe we just never heard about it
the 24 hour news cycle and citizen reporters has changed it so it's hard for Julian's America to fleece the chattle and use their wealth to get around laws and such
There is a lot of evidence (and writings) that Trump’s America is a product of the assholeization of America
Just driving around and observing, for example, I don’t remember this aggressiveness and assholery on the roads being as pronounced twenty years ago..
What is your evidence for saying it was always thus?
I think there has been a change in our culture and increased selfishness in the past few decades and accelerating
Are you submitting that people are fundamentally always the same?