[JayR]

I am thinking that there were one or two comments in there that took it to a pretty extreme place pretty quickly - blaming bad behavior on the COVID pandemic and the country it originated in, and blaming everything on the immigration problem.

True, civility has gotten worse in the last three years, since the lockdown year. And the immigration problem is definitely contributing to some of our other problems. But it's also true that people's behavior has been going downhill for a while. Chat rooms can get vicious, people can be horrible when protected by that screen.

And every one of us has been in a parking lot and seen some jerk do some jerky move, and then they double down on jerkiness by giving YOU the finger or glare as if YOU did something wrong when they were the jerky jerk.

There are two ways to deal - build bridges or burn them. I see both happening everywhere I look...