Looks at the worst excesses of the Roman Empire.
Looks at the worst horrors of the Nazis.
We've fallen pretty far, even from the then-new depths of Clinton and Bush, but we're a long way from rock bottom. (And the Republicans are doing their all to make sure we get there.)
It's like this level of depravity was just science fiction a few years ago. It's like we're in an era of rapid innovation in how mindlessly depraved one could be. Since Gingrich, the GOP has become the Manhattan Project, Microsoft, Human Genome Project, and Space X all rolled into one for assholes and special boys.
It was like the time I got really into Final Fantasy as a teenager and then started visiting internet forums for the game. There was a group of people who were banned from the forums for various petty reasons or their own adolescent awkwardness who eventually started trolling and calling themselves the Masters. Basically the goal of the Masters was just to troll everyone and inflict massive amounts abuse until no one would post anymore on the forums. Then they made their own forums where they would just ban people for not role playingv properly or something.
15 years later, replace gamers and "otaku" with society and the Masters (many of whom eventually turned out to be various flavors of alt-Right when I last checked on them in like 2006) with the Alt-Right and GOP and you can basically see the same dynamic and a case study on how these people have basically been degenerates since puberty.
Social dominators.
http://www.whale.to/b/authoritarian_leaders.htmlWho knows? In the end we may have more to fear from the internet troll who does not mature than from the car thief who does mature.
