I don’t usually like to talk politics, which is ironic in that I live in the Washington, DC, area. I find that these “discussions” often have a lot of heat, but very little light.
But I wonder–Has the world really changed so much since I was back in college? I had close friends I didn’t agree with about politics at all, but we could “agree to disagree.”
With all the recent talk about civility, where did it go?
We’ve reached such a polarized state that if someone disagrees, they’re “wrong.” It’s not that they have another opinion. If another political party wins an election, the end of the world is upon is. When did that happen?
Now the talk is about civility, and yet political figures are still compared to Adolf Hitler and accusations are made without any proof or basis in fact. The answer seems to be, “Everyone knows that’s true!” And I fear that “civility” has turned into a way to make certain points of view simply shut up.