I do not see what reverses this trend. Technological changes that are helping this trend along are still advancing. Also see The Big Sort by Bill Bishop about moving to live near like minds. Also, in many workplaces and academia only one partisan group can express their views.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/965791869769728000 …
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Replying to @futurepundit
Political opponents, we increasingly realize, are people we would sensibly separate ourselves from.
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Replying to @Outsideness @futurepundit
... There's nothing noble or "politically healthy" about prolonging proximal co-existence with people who have an entirely incompatible conception of the good life.
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How about when they are your children, or siblings, or parents?
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Replying to @Outsideness @futurepundit
My family is not broken, but any ideology that can't tolerate coexistence with people of different viewpoints, that would pit brother against brother and parent against child, is.
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So, you share a small house with your brother. He insists upon also sharing it with a clan of extremely devout and excitable Somali knife-grinders. Workable domestic arrangement?
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You share a small house with your daughter. She insists on donating to Planned Parenthood and social media posting in support of BLM. Workable domestic arrangement?
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How old is the daughter? If adult, then some additional distance is clearly advisable.
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... It's precisely because family is important that it should be prevented from becoming a communist-infested train-wreck.
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