Paul Rosenberg– Politics is ugly by nature. It sows division at all times, and it’s easy to see why: Democracy is the tyranny of the majority over the minority, restrained only by bills of rights, which matter less and less with each passing year. But what’s happening right now is not the traditional norm of American politics, and I think that politically active people of the past (like those of my parents’ generation) would be sickened by it.

Polarization Kills

A couple years ago I wrote an article on polarization, noting studies that showed this:

Whenever a group holding the same opinion remains in the same room, their opinion moves inevitably to the extreme. Continue reading →