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Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I agree. It's meaner, rather than angrier.
A whole talk radio industry has sprung up whose programing is meanness toward and vilification of an entire segment of our society. There are a couple of local radio stations whose programming is 24 hours of targeting people, building straw men, and tearing them down. They are fairly popular, and that kind of constant meanness and negativity has to have an effect on people.

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