You know what's really scary?
Apart from the obvious, of course.
I'm prompted to write this after reading a post about some insanity in Hawaii.
What's frightening is that the kind of hatred, bigotry, racism, Islamophobia, sexism, misogyny and more that has erupted in recent months has always been there, but somehow contained or restrained because we lived in a civil society.
No more. The vileness cannot be swept back under the rock. This is who and what we are now. And no one on the right seems able, willing, or interested in tamping it down. And unless that sort of leadership arises, there will be gridlock in washing for decades to come.
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as we've seen it for the last 7+ years, but the uncivility will grow and grow and grow, and as you say, 'unless that sort of leadership arises,' 
