Is it just a meme that people need talking points memos to have Thanksgiving conversations with their relatives, or do people really have that much anxiety about interactions with people outside their filter bubble? Or was it always this way and it was just less public?
@pganssle No, it wasn't always this way. The extreme polarization and acceptance of boorish behavoius à la POTUS is a new phenomenon.
People do get nasty and best not to even start an argument with them. There's no win there.
So, smile and have a sip of wine, juice or what is on your cup. Get a refill. Smile and repeat.
It will be over soon, I promise. 😉
@design_RG Increased polarization seems to be the common wisdom, but I don't know if it's so straightforward. Consider that rates of terrorist-related killing were much higher in the 70s than today because of violent left-wing bombings and such, so there was a time in the US where some subset of the politically-active were literally killing people over their ideology.
There are probably ways in which we are more polarized now, but it's easy to forget the details of the past.
@design_RG In any case, I definitely am not worried about interacting with people with a different ideology or background than me. What's shocking to me is that anyone sees it as something you need to worry about, or prepare for.
