The REAL problem we have is that there's not enough people in the middle willing to work with "the idiots on the other side."
Someone did a study about social media and how it related to what their topic was, and put the results into a physical graph showing the distribution of links between tweets, facebook pages, and other sites.
Political discourse everywhere else in the first world looks like a dumb-bell: Two big lumps representing left and right connected by a narrow channel of news and civil debate.
The good old USofA right now? Two blobs separated by miles of virtual paper. Because neutral news doesn't make any money in advertising, but screaming opinion does.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
Someone did a study about social media and how it related to what their topic was, and put the results into a physical graph showing the distribution of links between tweets, facebook pages, and other sites.
Political discourse everywhere else in the first world looks like a dumb-bell: Two big lumps representing left and right connected by a narrow channel of news and civil debate.
The good old USofA right now? Two blobs separated by miles of virtual paper. Because neutral news doesn't make any money in advertising, but screaming opinion does.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll