Mother of boy, 15, held at gunpoint by US immigration agents files $1m claim

I think there's more than a few south american and middle eastern countries who would say there's no argument. Also black ppl and natives would agree

I too have been noticing racist and homophobic slurs that were popular in my youth make a sudden return, even in tRump1 I did not hear it as much as now.

I'm right behind you @ 45 years old, and a Navy Vet. If it makes you feel any better, Wilson was actually worse. We've been through this before as a country, I just hope the civil war we are in doesn't spill out of the country.

an older white man I know I ran into (at the grocery) said something like “if I have to pay a black man reparations, I should be able to bring him home and beat his ass first.”

Wow that's absolutely disgusting, if I observed that I would definitely say so to him in no uncertain terms. But I live in a low crime country with few crazies, and I'm a big white guy, so generally I have nothing to fear.
But maybe part of the problem, is that intolerance has been tolerated way to much in USA. Making it look like the crazies have more power than they actually have.

white racists with money have taken over USA politics

Indeed they have, but not without a lot of help from for instance moronic Latinos, that thought job security under Trump would be better, and are often religious nut cases, that believe Trump is the 2nd coming of Christ.

It’s exhausting to deal with adults who have the reasoning of a 5 year old fueled by their hatred.

Best wishes, nothing much I can say, it does not look good. 😟

I agree with everything you said, I remember seeing this graph that shows how likely House Democrats and Republicans where likely to vote with their party between 1949 -2011, which already showed a pretty bleak outlook, here's the full paper.

The second thing that I noticed about ten years ago maybe before that was the sudden increase in misinformation on Facebook and YouTube that people will believe as truth, and since they see it engages you they will constantly bombard them with more and of it. I remember as a kid adults saying don't believe everything you read, and if so and so would jump off a bridge would you? A lot of them should have taken there own advice.

It's not just older generations, younger ones are obviously affected by it but in different ways cyber bullying, that weird Andrew Tate following and other.

I heard someone explain like this, let's say a person walks up to on the street and asks you to buy something, obviously it's easy to say no and walk away. Now instead of a person imagine it's a machine with 10 billion times more intelligent than all of humanity combined is constantly trying to get you to click a link.