“Oh they didn’t actually mean that, it was all jokes”.

Because those were jokes.

The problem we have today is not that it was socially acceptable to be a psychopath online in 2014. The problems are, in my opinion:

• Rapidly decreasing standards of living
• Social media making people more stupid
• Governments being too large and intransparent
• Pointless governmental spending without explaining the why to the population

The right-wing shift is part of a global failure of established governments.

You sound like a boomer ngl