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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....

These are just distractions. Distractions put in place so you don't look up and see what's actually going on. Most of us, I know I do, ignore all this hot air. Its certainly not in my face because I find it boring and trivial so I just shut it off and ignore it. The only time I get annoyed is when I hear a person persistently rant about a race or a certain type of sexuality but other than that I'm a live and let live sort of person.

This isn't the nitty gritty of politics. Its not about how this government is leading our country or how another party would lead it differently. If politics is such a vast subject, why put so much emphasis into such trivial matters when there are much bigger things we should be discussing such as energy, tax, military, the economy, the impending crash, health and social care and any one of the major subjects to do with turning the cogs in the big wheel.