Even during the flower power years people generally were able to form coherent arguments that didn't require cult-like use of strange jargon and feedback loops in niche communities. Internet means that you have college kids brainwashing themselves in reddit or tumblr communities (or 4Chan or 9Gag for the other side of the political aisle) where they regurgitate nonsense, many of which comes from foreign intelligence agencies trying to poison future American generations (and other English speaking places). It's telling that most of this shit is occurring in places where English is common.
You don't see this flavor of crazy in South Korea. No one there is advocating for gender fluidity or that there is a child pedophile ring hidden in a Korean fried chicken joint by their parliament building.
And for a lot of these people, their brains are geared to stay thinking like this, or else they lose the 'friends' they made and the justification for why they are always angry, and then feel the intense embarrassment for engaging in that shit in public with their face and government name.
