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Thomas B. Edsall quotes a study in his Times article : "...concluded that “social media shapes polarization through the following social, cognitive, and technological processes: partisan selection, message content, and platform design and algorithm.” Although they cautioned that “social media is unlikely to be the main driver of polarization, we posit that it is often a key facilitator.” I mean modes of communication will of course be a factor in what is going on. It's not just the 4 network's news and the newspapers now, information comes flying in from everywhere, and it's hard to evaluate the sources when it's not moderate network news. It gives me a chance to reflect on my own polarization. I think my polarization has come at the hands at watching the criminality of Trump, the loss of accountability, and the realization that under Trump the right doesn't want a political discussion, they just want power moves and dada lying, death cult, and just to wreck up...

From a NY Times article about problems in having the governor of Florida speaking at the Jewish museum. "“As American domestic politics has become more and more ferociously polarized, and increasingly as people see conservatives not just as different but fundamentally anti-democratic or illiberal or authoritarian or racist, holding together this big tent is really, really difficult,” said Peter Beinart, a writer and editor-at-large for Jewish Currents, a progressive magazine, who also writes for The New York Times." It's recently come to my attention that polarization is used by Russia and China to attack an open society, where we have freedom of the press, freedom of the internet, and more democratic features. The democratic features might seem pathetic: We need term limits because incumbents gather power to buy votes through slick advertising, and the choices we have are pretty slim and unrevolutionary.  The conservatives have utilized radio and Faux news to whip up th...