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Almost half of Americans say people have gotten ruder since the COVID-19 pandemic.

www.pewresearch.org Almost half of Americans say people have gotten ruder since the COVID-19 pandemic

Many Americans perceive a rise in rude behavior, and 34% say they see it almost always or often when they go out in public.

Five years after the coronavirus outbreak, many Americans say public behavior in the United States has changed for the worse, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.

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Covid was the the grand reveal of what average americans actually are.
And 50% of average americans are self centered, hateful pieces of shit that deserve a fist shoved down their throat and a red hot rod shoved up their ass.
25% are genuinely decent people who would make any sacrifice to protect people they've never will, and probably never would meet.
and the remaining 25% make a big show of trying to decide between which one of these two groups of people are the actual good people. (and then, regardless of who they say or how they act, end up perfectly in line with the 50% )
- I think it was the Trump presidency, which coincided with the pandemic. Every piece of shit who rightfully kept their bad behavior under wraps was shown someone rewarded with the presidency for being an absolute human crusty cum sock and decided to go mask off. Then they banded together, like a hateful, musty pile of jizz saturated teenage laundry.
  
  100% this.
  I think it had been building for years due to ever increasing numbers of people behaving badly behind pseudonyms online but the majority of asshats still maintained the illusion of not being asshats. Trump's first ascendancy gave all those closet asshats permission to no longer care about maintaining illusions.
  
  In one respect, Hillary Clinton was right. How she named the seething mass of ignorant hatred was spot on.
  The Deplorables.
- Hey now. Some of us are rude now because we had to deal with that 50% for so many years. Eventually, we stopped asking them politely and start telling them to lick toilet seats.
- Honestly, well stated.

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