Accidental Earth Day

[glatt]

Maybe just in DC. Things seem a lot worse here in the last year or so in people's attitudes. Maybe some of it is Uber's fault too. A lot more cars on the road and people doing crazy shit to try to not fall behind. Stuff that was rare a few years ago is common place now.

Saw a fistfight at noon a couple weeks ago.

There is always the possibility that I am projecting my own feelings, but I think I am seeing a pattern.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by glatt

We always had those things, but I think, in all seriousness, that with our current leader showing a disregard for the rules, everyone wonders what the point is of being civil and civic minded. That bad behavior is on the rise.

Originally Posted by lumberjim

People are rude in cars because Trump?

Originally Posted by glatt

There is always the possibility that I am projecting my own feelings, but I think I am seeing a pattern.

There's a vicious cycle with Republican elected officials and Trump. They brought the standards down that (mostly inadvertently) let him in, and he's pulling standards down left and right because of who he is, and they're pulling standards down to accommodate him because they're pot committed, which he takes advantage of, and so on, and so on.

I don't know how much that translates to a lack of standards in the real world, but I have a similar feeling (and possibility of projection) to glatt.