What happened? What is it with some people? What is their attraction for the darker sides of their natures to be experienced? Hasn't the world had enough of that?
What is this compulsion to create drama and spectacle? To pit the bad against the good? Are we stuck with this behavior being played out over and over?
Can they not stand to watch the Hallmark Channel and must instead turn their eyes towards the ultimate fighting pit? Must they always push the edges always in that way, and if what they have uncovered is abhorrent, is there within them the desire still to ramp even that up?

If there's no drama, it seems they become restless and must create some. All the tools for peaceful, harmonious, and abundant coexistence are at the human race’s disposal and yet dysfunction rules the day, at the highest levels, which then trickles down and infects the vulnerable in the populace. When even some of our role models model discord, as if that sort of thing is inevitable, as if there must exist the ‘necessities’ of strife, inequality, and injustice, and then they have the gall to chuckle at it, smug to be on the other side of that equation, is that not then the realm of madmen and fools? I say this kind of thinking is the result of an astounding and appalling failure to accept the responsibility to lead.
    For where can dysfunction and disharmony go but back upon itself to degrade the situation further? If fault can be found outside, in all cases, but not within, what hope is there for correction? Does nature operate in this way, do flowers and trees start out stunted and then flower spectacularly or produce branches and leaves suddenly devoid of imperfection?
  No. So what then can come of imperfect thought but more of the same? There is no 'method in the madness' in a lot of the present day socio-political sphere. 
Reason and compromise have given way to deceit and subterfuge and outright denial of reality. 

     I saw all this coming years ago. I saw the path that certain groupings were walking and knew that it could only lead to this. Look to the recent past, the last dozen decades or so. Weren't there indications of this malaise heading our way? But only recently has it exploded into what is occurring now, an Orwellian nightmare that is desperately trying to establish itself as the 'new normal' if only the populace at large would buy it and if they do, all hope for the human race is lost because the foundation upon which reality is based- truth- will no longer exist. 
   Truth, fact, reality. Like that. This is how we build our foundation. We search for what is true, establish that as fact, build our reality upon it, and repeat. Step by step. 
     Truth has always been under attack by those seeking to subvert, but never so much as it is today. The present situation is like a weather system. The winds of untruth are rising in response to what is coming, a strong, cold, hard dose of truth that will sweep unreality out to sea. It could be the perfect storm, the way it's shaping up. All the forecast models are indicating this. 
    But, don’t worry, truth will prevail, as it always does, because truth is stronger than untruth. Truth is what the universe is based on and though mankind may choose to deny it for awhile and exist in an unreality bubble, that is no match for the greater power of The Universe. 
     So go ahead, fabricators. Create your fantasy worlds, altered histories, and alternative cosmologies all you want. Those will be whisked away by the clearing winds, to be scattered back into the nonsensical regions from whence they came.