America is really beginning to scare me. Or rather, what I see from America is beginning to scare me. Every day the situation there seems to get worse, with more depictions of violence, anger and intolerance. The thing is, my prime source of information is my YouTube feed. I obviously don’t live in the United States, so almost everything I know about the situation there comes from YouTube. Every morning among quite a few other things I watch clips of guys like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel doing their nightly routines, panting an increasingly dystopian picture of their county. The thing is, their acts are still so interspersed with jokes and throw-away remarks that you could almost assume things were perfectly normal. The mismatch between tone and content is quite jarring, but might that mean that I’m only seeing one side of the story? Could the violence and turmoil be being exaggerated for dramatic effect? As unlikely as that may be, to be honest I’m starting to hope with increasing desperation that it is.