There was a window of opportunity to make mask-wearing as apolitical as handwashing, but we missed it. And once an issue gets its coattail in the woodchipper of political polarization, it's all over. The process is social media driven, but how to mitigate it is our great crisishttps://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1420838160087531524 …
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Dropping a brick of heroin on every doorstop would probably have been less damaging than giving people an always-on device that communicates news about the world through the people who matter most to them. But we YOLO'ed our way into this world, and now have to YOLO our way out
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In pondering possible firebreaks for this dynamic, I can’t help but think that having a dash of people from the other political side crossing over on a topic makes basically zero difference
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This polarization is not new - in the 90s I grew up listening to preachers talk about the gov't persecuting xtians, Limbaugh ranting about socialism, had creationist textbooks etc.. The only change is now the different bubbles are aware of each other, and that's an improvement.
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