Disillusioned - Larry Niven (one of my favourite sci-fi authors) was/is a raging racist POS

[John Ludi]

7. I guess the disconcerting thing

for me has been seeing people who were nuanced thinkers who seemed to have a decent amount of intellectual discernment and kind of floated above the fray go full tilt into jingoism and parrot the current lowbrow culture buzzwords and cliches. In some cases I think it's an economic motivation in that it's easier to make bank off of the right wing (or get more clicks, views, votes, etc.), but some of them almost seem like the ossification of aging minds. As I enter my older years I've found it harder and harder to get out of my own patterns, so perhaps that's an element in the mix.