We're in a phase. It's called "The Reveal".
It's NOT that it's getting uglier (and uglier). It's that The Reveal is a planned revealing, peeling off the layers one by one, drawing the unawake into the Rabbit Hole, to join those of us already, to varying degrees, awake/red-pilled.
To someone smelling the roses, so-to-speak, it seems to be getting "worse", when it was this bad all along (and worse).
I liked that DJT thru into the SOTU, after talking about SomaLies, Minneapolis, Minnesota... that it was worse in Massachusetts. I hope we here in MA are next up (we're on deck) for The Reveal.
The Reveal ... like peeling an onion, the deeper you go the harder you cry.
Hubs and I work hard for our money, first as dairy farmers and now as factory hands. I have a permanent injury from an accident at work. (I could hear bones breaking. Never thought that would happen outside of a farm accident or getting thrown by a horse. I digress.)
The least the government can do is responsibly oversee the money we give literal blood, sweat, and tears to earn.