Toxicity

If it wasn't already blatantly obvious, the US has become an extremely toxic place to live in right now.  Political divisions, cultural divisions, economic divisions - and a contagious virus totally out of control.  And all the bad blood stoked by the most toxic presidency in a lifetime, and undoubtedly inflamed further online by Russian bots and right-wing Reddit forums.  It seems even my neighborhood app has been infected.  What was once a simple forum for restaurant recommendations, local crime, things for sale and other gentile local news is now just full of aggressive and hateful discourse about masks, community gatherings and social distancing, inevitably ending up in right versus left mud-slinging.  It's sad, it's nasty, and this is just a small microcosm of the same kind of divisions present in every other neighborhood and on a national level.  This is not the kind of America I aspire to live in - and I don't think it is for the vast majority of Americans.  But sadly the voices of reason and compromise and sanity are drowned out now by loud extremist ignorance, particularly on the right.  And I still think Trump is going to win re-election.  It shouldn't be possible - but such is the mad reality we are currently suffering through.