"The stupidity on the right is most visible in the many conspiracy theories spreading across right-wing media and now into Congress. “Pizzagate,” QAnon, the belief that vaccines contain microchips, the conviction that Donald Trump won reelection—it’s hard to imagine any of these ideas or belief systems reaching the levels that they have without Facebook and Twitter."
I feel sad for this author. Still clinging on to right vs left. Refusing to understand that half of the country voted for the candidate he opposes. Yet he can not make the simple intellectual jump to understand the other side? You really cannot sit in the shoes of Americans who vote differently to you and understand why they feel this way, what their reality is, what their experiences are, what they have been taught? This intolerableness stems from the author's high horse he sits on. This article is merely a reflection of his own lack of intellegence.
You sound so angry here. What are your thoughts on Ray Dalio, polarization?
My thought is that this is a force of nature the USA is up against.
Even in nature before humans, things polarize. There is a balance between the strong and the weak force. Between cooperation and competition. It's when these balances get thrown off we move towards another.
Ironically, it's well known that the side of "Love, Understanding, Sympathy, and Tolerance" understands the other side less than it understands them.
It means the other side has higher actual-empathy (ability to emulate what someone else is thinking/feeling: putting yourself in their shoes).
Refusing to understand that half of the country voted for the candidate he opposes.
No presidential candidate in US history has ever received votes from half of the country, because voter turnout is so low. If you mean half of ballots cast, that's not true in this case either: in 2016 Trump lost the popular vote and nobody won a majority of ballots nationwide.
I feel sad for this author. Still clinging on to right vs left. Refusing to understand that half of the country voted for the candidate he opposes. Yet he can not make the simple intellectual jump to understand the other side? You really cannot sit in the shoes of Americans who vote differently to you and understand why they feel this way, what their reality is, what their experiences are, what they have been taught? This intolerableness stems from the author's high horse he sits on. This article is merely a reflection of his own lack of intellegence.