Every time it was. Every time.

If you weren't there you might not understand. Nothing could be trusted. They would lie in every book, every radio broadcast, every television show, every goddamn street map. The Soviet state dictated everything down to what color lipstick was for sale year by year.

The Soviet Union was a three generation long nightmare. Imposed on Eastern Europe by force, from evil foreigners.

Clown World exists because the average person deserves it. Because as a society we decided that we should coddle people who don't deserve to live. Because we decided that we needed warning labels for every possible potential blatant misuse of a product, since "hot coffee" clearly didn't really mean hot coffee.

Because we cater to the lowest common denominator. And that's what you get with "democracy."