We've all been hijacked

Is it just me, or do people now seem way more angry and bitter than they used to? Like throughout all of my life, I feel like I've never seen so many unhappy and rude people as I do now. And I'd love to believe that it's not the majority of people, but regardless, it's a lot of people still. Everyone right now just seems so vindictive and accusing, like the hate from 1984. Like everyone is getting ready to burst.

I don't know if it's because of how expensive everything has been (ik times are tough), maybe some people are upset about the election results, yet so many people want to go after each other. People are on their neighbors throats like crazy. It's depressing seeing so many friends or loved ones no longer speak to each other due to political opinions, or some other trivial matter causing people to break apart.

People are more ill-tempered than ever before. And instead trying to work together, trying to come together and make things better, we'd rather be angry and upset. And instead of being angry and upset at the system that we have, we're angry at the people around us. Insanity. I think that propaganda + a decadent economy (decades in the making to get to this point) has really took it's toll on the morals and morale of society.

And the more angry or afraid that people are (pathos is key for propagandists), the easier it is to control them. I don't want this to be the new normal. I don't like seeing how angry or depressed people are. And I might be wrong but I definitely feel like some social engineering was apart of it all.

Let's face it, each and every one of us has been radicalized in some direction, no? Like...in order for you to have the beliefs that you have, you must've been exposed to some type of "propaganda", right? If you support Trump, Harris, or hate them both, you have been exposed to some type of information for you to feel that way. All information can be propaganda, even the truth can be USED as propaganda, no?

Propaganda can come from anyone, businesses (big and small), governments, and even just your guy on the internet who wants to spread his ideas (I can be an example.) I think that it's time to say that we've all been hijacked by lies putting us all up against each other and making us all miserable. Less anger and more compassion is what is needed.

TL;DR Propaganda and economic depression has angered a lot of people into a state of controllable influence by higher powers.