I'm personally going to go with "Trump-induced degradation of the United States into a low-trust society".

#haiku#holloweenie

There's been a general uptick in asshole behavior across all ages since he took to that escalator, yes. But there's also something noticeable going on with the most recent batches of grads on top of the background meanness from what I'm hearing.

I don't know "induced" but most certainly "accelerated"

i think there's something about the atomization of shared culture but the thought isn't forming completely in my brain

He gave people permission to be their absolute worst in every respect & as it turns out that was all a lot of them ever wanted out of life.

Capitalists realize that scarcity is the source of value. Christian ones realized you can apply that to social capital - ruin society at large and churches will seem like islands of trust by comparison