Shifting majority

Up until recently, the majority of people, in every country, were pretty reasonable, had good common sense and constituted a stable, reliable mass of individuals that kept their nation in a safe and comfortable center. 

With the advent and the deep popularization of the internet and the spread of disinformation, misinformation, fake news and a totally unpredictable as well as unregulated social media, much damage has been done to this once reliable and steady segment of the population. 

Now big chunks of an otherwise well-behaved population are turning into brain-dead extremists. The advent of tyrants like Xi, Putin, Bolsenaro and Trump are, if we needed them, the new canaries in the coal mine and constitute some clear indicators that something is chipping away at democracy as we know it.

Sometimes, we feel that our developed and advanced world is going towards the deep end of the pool of insanity, and these feelings might be more justified than we dare to believe.