> 20 years ago

It wasn't even like this 4 years ago.

Maybe you missed donglegate six years ago. These people aren't new, but they seem to be gaining in numbers and influence.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes...

It's almost like something really divisive happened within the last 4 years or so. I can't imagine what.

You bet - the political elites got thoroughly rejected and the resulting temper tantrum hasn't stopped yet!

The next five years should be even more exciting.

EDIT: we really need to stop referring to them as political elites; that's giving them too much credit. The wannabe political elites then - because obviously they weren't as elite as they thought - ha!

Somewhat less divisively: what ought to have been a routine democratic election took place which a lot of people invested a lot of emotion into. It’s hardly the first time a world government has had a political upset, but it does seem to be the first time a significant segment of the population lost sight of the fact that democracy only works when everybody accepts the results, even if it wasn’t the result they voted for.

I don't believe your assertion that it was the losers who didn't accept the results. The person most prominently questioning the integrity of the election was the winner. He spent months putting out strange lies about about "3 million invalid votes" and opened an advisory committee to investigate election integrity. He's only escalated it since. A couple of months ago, he claimed that the 2016 election had 16 million fake votes.

I don't think that outweighs the literal years of the RUSSIAN COLLUSION nothingburger, if you're going to talk about bogus investigations.

One of those two investigations produced 34 indictments, convictions, or guilty pleas (one of the indictments is on trial today!). The other accomplished nothing but disbanded itself after a judge ordered that the Democrats appointed to the committee should be allowed to see what the committee was doing.

One of them was headline news for years on end before fizzling out after it became evident that it didn't even come close to the supposedly imminent impeachment of the president. The other was a minor thing that nobody really took seriously and ended years ago.

"Well, other than 34 indictments and convictions, it was a nothing burger..."

"Well, other than the interruption, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

Stacey Abrams

Did she say something about Trump's election being illegitimate?

I mean, I was argumentative AF on facebook as long as 8 years ago.

This is why I moved out. Look up the DAFT.