JD Shellnut said:
captkirk said:

What happened to these weirdos 100 years ago? Knocked in the head? Seems like I see freaks like this fairly often now. 
since circa 2008 to present - over the course of almost two decades - a bloodless Bolshevik revolution has been occurring. 
"normies" have been vilified and turned into our greatest "threat", the bad guys, the racists, the extremists, the domestic terrorists, etc. despite a complete lack of evidence to back it up.  People with jobs and families, and especially people who go to church, are the worst. Moms at school board meetings are terrorists. Catholics are extremists. Not voting for the regime is racist. 
Meanwhile, the weirdos, freaks, criminals are all victims so they're the good guys now. 
Pitting the haves vs the have nots is how communist revolutions work. Accusing the other of what you're guilty of is a marxist tactic. Controlling news media and intentionally dividing the population to make it easier to control  is a marxist tactic. Flooding the populous with more government-dependent have-nots is a marxist tactic. 
My guess is the growth of social media and the tiktok/ reddit/ discord generation has all the weirdos and freaks thinking they're fitting in with the majority now as they're all victims together so their population has expanded and flourished.