[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Bucco

To be fair, the great and vast majority of Villagers are really great.

I have noticed the same gradual change you have also. Social media is a big part of it......it seems that social media is the larest single influence on so many, especially those that post this forum. TODAY, it was reported that there were many more posts on Facebook than originally was thought that began "overseas" from a "foreign" country that were intended for one thing....to polarize all of us. It has been and continues to work.

I know we must stay away from political discussions but will just say, my wife and I have been going out for "breakfast".....at least coffee every morning almost since we got here in 2000. The tone even there where discussion was the keystone has completely changed.

People are discussing issues that are not even issues....I mean, not even a real thing, yet they are convinced it is. This causes so much grief because try and tell them it does not exist and you have an argument.

Stepping aside from social media, I notice on here folks seem to judge others using a unique and strange scale. We read about people of "such and such" generation and how they worked for what they got and those who may be suffering did not. Well, how in the world does everyone know what life dished out to everybody else ? A lady from one of our "exclusive" neighborhoods is reported to be involved in a huge Ponzi scam, essentially robbing others of hard earned money, and not a word. Let a robbery happen in Wildwood or Leesburg and you will see the "judges" come out to determine these bad people had a choice and chose not to work and go on welfare. How do people KNOW that ? Betting the operator of the Ponzi scheme would be welcome at a TOTV get together, but I believe that the landscapers in The Villages are for the most part hard working people trying to do what most Americans have tried to do for many years....make a better life for their children and their family.

I hope my point is clear and not considered political. Just a statement of fact As I read this forum...there is a snobbish type of judgement passed here that is troubling. And so much is becoming obvious off the forum in my travels.

Summarize.....we have lost touch with the truth.....we have lost touch with what values made this country great.....we are breeding a group who feels THEY and THEY ALONE are supreme.

If you think I am over stating this, I suggest you do some reading about what is happening on social media...the complete lack of honesty, fairness or even simple human compassion.

Sorry for being so long but this really has bothered me, and no matter how much I may disagree with anyone will never be mean or lie about them

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