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« on: June 15, 2017, 04:51:10 PM » |
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In the wake of the attack on the GOP baseball team yesterday, as with the Giffords shooting 6 years ago, it feels like we have really reached a new low in terms of our ability to relate or even communicate with people we disagree with politically. Sure there's lots of immediate aggravating factors - the 2016 election pitted two polarizing candidates against one another, there was a difference between the electoral and popular vote, the incredibly fast pace of Trump's first few months, the apparent rise in profile of many figures formerly considered "fringe" groups, such as the Alt-Right, and whatever ideology you want to ascribe to the shooter yesterday.
At the same time, these appear to be symptoms of a much larger disease that really feels like it started 10-20 years ago, and maybe earlier. Whatever caused it is certainly many years in the making, and almost definitely beyond the ability of one or even a few people to instigate. What do you see as the root cause of our current divisiveness?
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