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Originally Posted by jet

It's a lot uglier now. We didn't have the far left Momentum then with their Marxist ideals....and we didn't have the OTT PC nonsense which is showing a worrying loss of rationality and perspective.
We didn't have transgender activists who call you a fascist if you have the view that a woman and a man are biologically different.
Or the strident keyboard warriors who call you a racist if you feel immigration should be curbed (not that I do personally). Or a sexual abuser if you happened to accidentally brush a woman's knee with your hand.
I'm sure you can think of many more examples.
Twitter and Facebook are used much more now and are a breeding ground for dissent and online witch hunts. The hard left site Skwawkbox, endorsed by Corbyn, feed the young fake news to discredit opposition which they take as gospel.

I really think it's worse....

It is getting worse but like I said I think that was inevitable, and it's also not one-sided. People are lurching hard to both "sides" in an almost tribal way. It's a battle... it's a "game"... and the harder one pushes, the more severe the backlash from the other, in a downwards spiral. Yes, all of the things you mention here are true and are problems; but in response, we have Trump as the POTUS, we have emboldened, GENUINE racists abusing the shield of "free speech". We have people basically saying "Damn PC to hell" and believing that they should be able to say literally whatever they want without any legal OR social repercussions (with the former being fair enough, but the latter nonsensical).

All of that said; I actually still think the problem is a very loud, very visible (especially online) minority and most people - other than on their bad days - are actually sick of ALL of it and want to settle back into a reasonable middle ground.