Why can't people use the word "anymore" correctly anymore?

Why can't people use the word "anymore" correctly anymore?
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answer:I’ve been hearing this for many years (decades), and it still bugs me. The difference is that we expect to hear it used with a negative construction: “I don’t eat sweets any more.” With a positive construction, it doesn’t make any literal sense. More than that, I’m bothered by the misconstructions of people who write but apparently don’t read anything and so don’t quite get what they’re hearing; people who would write “I’d like to be apart of the solution” or “We have to do diligence.” If all they read is Internet posts and office e-mails, they’re going to absorb some very mistaken ideas. If I can ever post questions again, I have one on a related subject.
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