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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The country is tribalizing into warring factions with biases. You think you're factual, but you pretty much sound like a script from MSNBC.
I had a brief discussion of politics with an older family member last nite. This was like listening to a Fox script.
The right's more crazy, and less factual. But you're both full of shit, and this place is uniquely full of shit because you actually think you've insight and knowledge. You don't.
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The tribalization you describe is very real, but you are totally missing what is driving it.The country has a mainstream and a right wing. The mainstream is not "tribalized." Indeed, most people don't really care about politics or identify with a "tribe." Conservatives do and do -- they are the ones who are tribalized. This has been going on for years. Conservatives feel underrepresented, not without some basis, by mainstream institutions, so they have set up their own conservative counterparts (Liberty University instead of the Ivy League, the Washington Times instead of the NYT and WaPo, FOX News instead of CNN, the Federalist Society instead of the ABA, etc.). When conservatives gravitate towards the latter, the vacuum moves the former to the left, which causes the former to engage in various kinds of affirmative action to keep conservatives voices and audiences. It doesn't really work. Nevertheless, mainstream organizations are not tribalized in the way that conservative alternatives are. The tribalization is driven by conservative grievance.
