It’s commonly observed that political vitriol is stronger than ever before in recent memory. The left thinks the right is a bunch of Nazis ready to Sieg Heil to Trump whenever possible, while the right thinks the left is a bunch of tone-deaf, cross-dressing terrorists, ready to riot on cue. The great rift is growing ever wider and never the twain shall meet, it seems.

Have you ever considered just how much social media has contributed to this state of things? Yes, I know that social media is everyone’s favorite whipping boy, and as such, we all – myself included – zone out when it’s mentioned. But this time social media’s role in the great political divide struck me in a different way. To illustrate, imagine the following scenario with me:

Unless I miss my guess, you’ve probably experien

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