The trumpets in my family, aunt and uncle, are different. they pretend to be affable and loving, act like they want to see us, but every time we get together they CAN NOT HELP themselves from talking shit about liberals or whatever the latest fox propaganda is. And they know my parents, my wife and I are left to varying degrees. So I finally said fuck it, clearly you do not respect me, so I don’t need your bullshit in my life anymore.
She means disease in the macro sense, like America is diseased. People are no different than they were any time before, just now they are being driven by their emotions and biases with profit-driven 24 hour news and social media.