A nation at war with itself
SAN DIEGO -- What's wrong with people?
I bet you've shaken your head and wondered the exact same thing lately. It's obvious that a lot of folks -- in both political parties -- have a "chip" missing that prevents them from knowing what constitutes inappropriate behavior.
They may have majored in social studies and mastered social media, but they are in urgent need of social skills.
Who knows how these folks got this way. Their parents should have detected this glitch in their wiring and tried to fix it with therapy. Or maybe their peer group in high school and college could have drummed it out of them with a disapproving: "Not cool, man."
But somehow, somewhere, someone missed a stitch. And here we are -- with perhaps millions of Americans roving around, bumping into each other, invading each other's space, and offending one another left and right. Literally.
If you're on the left and still baffled by how anyone could support President Trump, you're convinced our descent into incivility began with his ascension to the White House.
If you're on the right, you likely blame the national tsunami of rudeness on the anti-Trump media and their soulmates in the Democratic Party who want to run Trump out of office -- or at least defeat him for re-election in 2020.
Politics has never been beanbag. Yet these days -- in the aftermath of the horrid 2016 presidential election with its no-win choice between "bad" and "worse" -- something feels different.
Everything is much more personal. People are meaner, angrier and unhappier. Folks lose an election, and they get upset. They win an election, and
they get even more upset.
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