Four years of the Trump Administration (and its aftermath) have poisoned America. A sizable percentage of our citizens either learned to engage in crude behavior or were simply given permission to demonstrate their innate lack of civility.
We now witness violence on airlines, confrontations with school board members, threats to election officials and, perhaps most disturbing of all, the harassment of children and their parents over the use of masks. It is one thing to engage in respectful political discourse but quite another to make your point with brutish behavior.
Of course, the Big Lie is responsible for much of the confrontation but Trump's crude behavior while in office unearthed similar tendencies in those who rushed to his support and defense. Unless we elect individuals who are committed to fairness, cooperation, respect and decency, this current of incivility will destroy our Democracy.
