re: #300 ObserverArt

But, it needs to be asked what happens to the reasoned mind that something political can trigger it to no longer reason and allows irrational thought to come in?

Maybe it is a kind of shock. As DF said, Woods changed in/around 2001 because of Islamist attacks. Quite honestly many of us did. The difference is that most of us were eventually able to process and accept the events. Some couldn’t. I think this is often the case with cases of shock and/or PTSD. Again, maybe