Edited to replace original incorrect Herzog attribution with my own version that correctly attributes the quote
if it makes you feel any better you were wrong and it was always fucked up. the difference between now and when you were young is that you’re more aware now.
i dont think it was always fucked up, there was always some amount of fucked up, but there’s vastly more amounts of fucked up now.
those are specific selections of fucked up ness in society. At some point that was considered to societal norm, people pushed outside of it, as the government and society intends to happen, shit gets goofy, eat sleep repeat and gay people are normal now.
we’re also talking about a specific problem in politics, manifested in a very specific way today, that wouldn’t have been possible merely 20 years ago, so i think it’s fair to treat this like a sort of historically true fact.
unless you’re trying to argue that humanity has been a constant state of bad throughout it’s entire history, which i doubt, and also changes from person to person. It’s not really relevant to go that far back i think.