America has become ruder. From the top – The Mercury News

If you have led the highway in recent years, you have been at the grocery store, assisted by a film or a live performance – devil, if you have been sensitive – the conclusions of a new survey will surprise you as much as the sun rising at dawn and sets in a twilight.

America has become ruder.

At least, this is a plurality of Americans perceive the state of our union.

A survey published by the non-partisan pew Research Center revealed that five years after the start of the COVVI-19 pandemic.

Our policy surely has it.

“Everything is a war. Everything is a battle. There is no collaboration, no coordination, no civic pride,” said Don Sipple, a veteran communications strategist that helped shape the campaign messages for George W. Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown, among others.

“Civic duty is only war,” continued Sipple. “And since Donald Trump entered the (presidential) race in 2015, he became more corrosive and caustic.”

This is what happens when you have a filter without president, no conscience and a flame thrower where his mouth should be.

More about it in a moment.

The cocovated effect

The pandemic seems a good starting point to measure the foundation of American P and Q., seeing how it produced the equivalent of a national nervous depression and took a country deeply divided even further.

The PEW survey revealed that little less than half of American adults interviewed – 47% – said that the way people behave in public these days are more than before the pandemic. Two out of 10 said that today’s behavior was much more delighted.

Some 44% of adults said public behavior was almost the same; 9% said people behaved a lot or a little more politely in public.

How – or rather, how did Pew researchers measure coarseness? The behavior they tested involved, among various intrusions, smoking, swear and the use of technology around other people.

Of the eight actions mentioned in the survey, two pulled the widest disapproval: 77% said that it was rarely or never acceptable to smoke around others and 74% said the same thing about a photo or video of someone without their permission.

About two -thirds of adults said it was rarely or never acceptable to bring a child to a place for adults, such as a high -end bar or restaurant; Visibly display the shares, as on a t-shirt or a sign; Or to cursed aloud in public.

Small majorities say that it is rarely or never acceptable to play music aloud or to wear headphones or headphones while speaking to someone. In both cases, an important number said that it depends: about a third said that it was sometimes acceptable to play music aloud, and about a quarter said that on the wearing of headphones while speaking to someone.

The survey revealed that the most important gap in perceived coarseness was between those of different ages.

Elderly adults were more likely than young adults to consider to be unable to cushion aloud, to visibly display blasphemies or to wear headphones while speaking to someone in person.

The worst model

Surprisingly, at a time when everything seems politicized, there were no major differences in points of view based on the partisan affiliations of respondents. At the very least, democrats and republicans agree that someone’s cigarette smoke and capture their reaction on video – without asking first – is annoying.

Maybe there is still hope for the Republic.

Not that you want to model the behavior of our coarse and coarse director general.

He seemed scandalous – and very independent – in 1992, when President George HW Bush referred to his rivals Democrats, Bill Clinton and Al Gore, “Two Bozos”.

Bush felt forced to apologize, just like his son George W., when he was looking for the White House eight years later and a hot micro surprised him referring to one of the political correspondents of the New York Times as “a major league A -“.

It should be noted that indiscretion, as sincere, has become public by accident. Bush did not criticize it during a campaign rally.

Compare this to this with Trump’s occasional blasphemy and the insults – “fat”, “ugly”, “scum”, “stupid”, “sleazebag”, “crayer neck”, “bitch son” – he regularly spits against adversaries.

“Donald Trump was at the forefront of the modification of the leadership standards of speech in the presidency,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, expert at the University of Pennsylvania in political communication and author of extensive work on the subject. “I mean, it is broken by barriers never broken before.”

It is difficult to analyze the extent to which politics forms culture and the quantity of culture shapes our policy. As Jamieson noted, “we are influenced by what we see around us. If I hear a lot of what we traditionally mark as an unforeseen discourse, it seems normal to me. ”

So is it surprising that America has become ruder? Especially with the rudeness and vulgarity regularly emanating from the Maladere CEO of the nation?

Andrew Breitbart, a deceased editor of the conservative website, suggested that “politics is downstream of culture”. But it seems that these days, the waters have ordered, creating an increasingly foul and polluted swimming pool.

Like a fish, American manners have rotten from top to bottom. The same goes for our political dialogue.

No wonder people hold their noses – and refuse to remove their headphones.

Mark Z. Barabak is a columnist for Los Angeles Times. © 2025 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency.