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I don't think it's so much that people have gotten dumber, there's always been dumb folk, but the age of social media has made them less fearful of looking stupid.
There's also the compounding effect of being able to hear more voices from around the world thanks to the internet.
Every village has an idiot. These days you don't need to visit the village to run into their idiot.
They have their own village now.