Feb 19, 2020
We’ve all experienced incivility on the Internet. But today’s incivility is more than people being rude to each other online. Political leaders have become less civil toward each other, and political parties have become more extremist. Middle America, meanwhile, is becoming less represented as people on the two political extremes listen less to and scream more at each other.
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Quick hits
Dinosaur statue
Car dealers encourage loan defaults
Foolishness of the week
Florida man refuses dialysis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/15/trump-cardboard-cutout-dialysis-treatment/
Topic of the week
The hounding of Jordan Peterson
https://spectator.us/jordan-peterson-addiction-death-online-hate/
U.S. media polarization
https://www.journalism.org/2020/01/24/u-s-media-polarization-and-the-2020-election-a-nation-divided/
Democrats have become more liberal
Why has America become so divided
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/201809/why-has-america-become-so-divided
What are the solutions to political polarization
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_are_the_solutions_to_political_polarization
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