What I meant was that the level of discourse in the US has been at retardation-level for many decades, and it's not any worse today. It's just a different kind of ridiculously terrible.
Guess being an Odie fan only did half the job....
What about heathcliff? Will he reverse the effect?! I need to know for... reasons.
And if you look at Heathcliff your gender will be inversed.