re: #270 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It does not help that political discourse is all but restricted to Tweets, Internet memes and bullet points. Anything beyond that degenerates into a shouting match.

I consider those more of a symptom than a cause, which is the unmooring of a large segment of the population from shared reality. Perfect example is just how quickly the term ‘Fake News’ - originally created to describe stories that were completely made up, with no basis in reality- got applied to actual news organizations.