There are clearly deep partisan divides in this country on issues like election integrity, immigration, abortion, guns, race/cultural identity, and economic policy. Many of them are “yes or no” issues on which compromise is impossible. Likewise, when parties align more around group identity than policy, and when each side views the other as an existential threat, compromise becomes nearly impossible. Social media amplifies the differences.
At the same time, social media, the internet and AI have broken the lock that traditional media had on gatekeeping the news and deciding what is accepted as fact. The now-obvious prior control of “the narrative” has resulted in a deep loss of trust in news reporting and trust in the government that propagates its narrative through the media.
KatNap Fever! 