At some point, I think it was in the mid-90s, there was some kind of cosmic event and reality split along two paths. The correct one and this one. This one has gone ‘progressively off into la la land. There’s no other explanation as to how many people lost their ability to think and act like intelligent beings.
It’s like the Star Treck ‘Spock’s Beard’ episode. There you had a vulcan ruled by emotion. Here we have people on the Right promoting the biggest lib the GOP ever produced and slamming any who won’t follow them to destruction.