Brownie28 wrote:
bluemonkeytri wrote:
Brownie28 wrote:
Duffy wrote:
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I also don't know what the solution is.
Turn off your tv.
What's more pervasive and fragmented these days, television (and tv news) or social media and news media sites? What's more impactful?
The issue isn't television, it's not FOX News or MSNBC. It's twitter, Facebook, Vox, Breitbart, HuffPo, Jezebel, NY Post, Red State, etc etc.
Idiots are driving further toward the extremes and insulating themselves in news that 'comforts' them and their worldviews.
I agree stepping away is largely the solution, but HOW do people step away? And I don't mean you and me and the LR, I mean the people who're falling down these rabbit holes and becoming more extreme in their political views and actions.
Fixed it for you.
I disagree, and that's part of the problem--part of what I'm having a hard time understanding. I have good friends who are very smart, successful people. A decade ago we'd shoot the shit, play golf, have some beers, spend a weekend as a group and politics might come up once if at all, and it was never divisive. Now even when I personally try to stay away from politics it invariably drives any conversation. Trump is a huge, huge reason for that, he's so fucking insane and divisive, but even prior to him it was ramping up.
Politics has just become a much bigger piece of peoples lives, for whatever reason. And I say that about both my liberal friends and my conservative friends and family.
Of those in my circle I disagree. It has become a bigger piece of my friends and family members on the left. Not the right. Most who I know are Republican's say nothing. They seem to lead their lives, work, have fun, raise a family and most spend very little time on the internet. My left wing friends and family, it is ALL they talk about. To the point where I've asked several to stop and they can't. They just get angrier and angrier. Sorry, much of the hate and anger I see personally is very one sided.
Of course I have no friends or family members who are Tea Party types. Most are old line GOP, conservative financially who could care less about social issues. All of my left wing friends and family are all social issues all the time.