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Perspective: Fear

During what can easily be defined as the most politically "toxic" social climate America has seen since the civil rights movement of the 1960's (or perhaps even the civil war) it has become increasingly difficult to determine (for oneself) exactly what tidbit of news is 'fake' or real, but also resulting from some triggered victimhood for which the perpetually offended should probably just suck it up and shut the F- up. If you're nodding your head then you know of what I speak. People are increasingly offended by anything that does not resemble their particular worldview, without realizing the reality of why diversity of thought is a good thing. They want ethnic diversity, but not ideological diversity, do they not remember the lessons of the past? The monolith for which they long is not unlike the monolithic ideologies that were promoted by Stalin, Mao, Hitler, among others. That aside, we (those that see this all as a problem) are still bewildered by those t