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  What are the roots of the current divisiveness of American politics/discourse? (search mode)
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Lingering effects of Great Recession/Economic Inequality
 
#2
America is an empire in a post-imperial world - our large and diverse country naturally lends itself to increased division
 
#3
The government has become complacent as neither party has faced a true existential threat in decades
 
#4
The media is incentivized to promote conflict and sensationalism
 
#5
People feel less agency over the decisions made by government due to increased influence of pan-national organizations like the UN and WTO
 
#6
White men threatened by the rise of women and minorities
 
#7
Lack of a common existential threat - USSR, Nazis, Al-Qaeda
 
#8
A general moral decay, due to increasing irreligiosity and secularism
 
#9
Foreign powers have nurtured divisions between Americans to weaken the nation on the international stage
 
#10
Social media has strengthened the "bubbles" we live in, by showing us hundreds of people who agree with us and little else
 
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Other (explain)
 
#12
Americans are divided, but that's a good thing and reflects a strong democracy
 
#13
America is not any more divided now than it has been in the recent past, it just feels that way
 
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Author Topic: What are the roots of the current divisiveness of American politics/discourse?  (Read 5370 times)
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« on: June 17, 2017, 05:24:35 AM »

Here's a hot take: the electoral collage and data journalism are to blame for reinforcing political divides as geographical and demographics chasms. People who follow politics lose site of individuals and can only see groups, which is especially bad when crude assumptions are drawn from data (e.g. republicans  writing off all younger votes as spoilt college kids; democrats moronically boasting about their highly educated vote and characterising the GOP base as gap toothed Hicks).
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« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2017, 06:08:18 PM »
« Edited: June 19, 2017, 06:11:06 PM by Çråbçæk »

George W Bush is a war criminal bro

This veneration of the president thing is why I hate presidential systems. Because the president is supposed to be some unifying symbol of the nation it becomes some weird thoughtcrime to say nasty stuff about the a POtUS, and any banal actions like one guy shouting "you lie" is treated as some sort of serious faux pas. Which is not really something you want in a HoG,
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