Our last presidential election and the actions of our current POTUS bear this theory out - our society is getting plain weird.  I literally do not have political conversations anymore, because most conservatives are so off the chain, or, frankly, just not that bright or well educated (there's a difference).  Ideocracy, here we come (from which movie my online name hails, although spelled differently; I failed to include two d's for a "double dose of pimpin'").