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This is kinda true
Or we get too focused on what we can gain out of it more than what is right or fair
So we don’t participate and when we do it’s not with the best intentions
Rising Star
True. This post just triggered all the memories of living in DC for a decade and listening to holier-than-thou woke hill bros from upper middle class white suburbs that have never been exposed to any level of diversity beyond the token minority kids in their hometown talk about how they’re going to be the white savior for underprivileged city kids… all before returning to their luxury apartments in gentrified neighborhoods that the communities they claim to care so much about got pushed out of.
Sorry. I told you I was triggered 💀
Rising Star
I also don’t totally agree but there’s a lot of validity to it and people should at least acknowledge where this perspective comes from. There’s plenty of people from privileged backgrounds who are doing their best and actively acknowledge it and it is respectable.
Pro
This leads to vacuums where bad actors can take up the mantle of leadership. What do you think about that?
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That is exactly true. When the best minds in society just focus on getting a better home and a car the idiots stand up to lead the mob.
Chief
Absolutely true.
A lot of ink has been spilled in the likes of the NYT, New Yorker, The Atlantic, etc. about the polarization from the populist right wing. That still stands, in my opinion.
However, it is a very uncomfortable truth that liberal professionals are also to blame in their own way. Incredibly out of touch with the living situation of 90% of the country, disgustingly smug/elitist, arrogant, and terminally online in their own cultural bubble where they dominate entertainment and mass media. Grew up in the South and did my undergrad at Harvard - some of my experiences there were jarring.
Also, cable news and social media. That stuff is pure brain rot.
Enthusiast
The working class works even more than us to make both ends meet. It’s usually the overzealous youth or some weirdos who are really into QAnon sht who go and protest, blog and post…
I would say polarization is created by a two party system. The division was rampant in early American history. People just don’t know their history that well.
What has created the impression that polarization is worse is a 24 hr news cycle and any bumbling idiot has a platform due to social media. (See this post).
The amount of external influences on local and state elections has become much worse which is what really impacts people’s lives more even though focus is much less.
C2 read closer… I said the 2 party system creates the polarization. It is funny you use an outlet like Vox to contradict exactly the point I was making.
I half agree. I think because we make enough money to not care about many issues that politics impacts we become "single issue voters". Taxes, abortion, guns, foreign affairs etc. We vote for people who support the most important thing to us.
Enthusiast
Think that this true of most people. We all only have so much brain space and empathy. With only two polar opposite options, that’s kind of what we have to do.
Rising Star
Read “The Death of Expertise” by Tom Nichols and “Governments End” by Jonathan Rauch