I think it started with people like Clinton and Dubya.
There's a reason there's been no assassination attempts since JFK.
Yes, including the recent theaters with Trump.
Do you think politics has been devalued since the arrival of the orange clown?
It's no so much politics are being devalued. It's more that society is constantly degenerating.
Most of us here are old enough to remember what life was like 20 years ago. Idk what kind of example you'd like here as I can pull them from every facet. Violence in video games, soft porn on daytime tv. Foul-mouthed cartoon characters set in homosexual roles.
It's clear society is degrading, but if we could look into every generation we'd see It's always been this way. The 2020s are not like 1990s. The 1980s were not like the 1960s. On and on. When I was a child,
hell was a bad word. "
H E double hockey sticks" they'd say. In my mid 20s I heard a cartoon character from a kids show use the term "fugly". I'll let you look it up.
Ethics and morals are increasingly taking the back seat to generations that are only interested in worshiping their desires. Money, health, women… You name it, everyone worships something.
I know you reject religion, but what we see all around us is just more proof of a Designer.
“Be patient, for an era will not come upon you, but that what comes after is worse, until you meet your Lord."
That was said 1400 years ago. Every one of us are witness to the reality of it today.
You probably find this all irrelevant, but God gives us the leaders we deserve. So our rulers being the worst of us today is just reflective as to how far we have fallen.