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Interesting article from 538, re: polarization and "unity"

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-radicalized-republic/

Especially for our "both sides!!111!!!" folks, here's a passage that more elegantly says "focus your efforts appropriately,"

If Republicans like Mike Pompeo think that multiculturalism is antithetical to American values, then compromise would likely exclude or disadvantage people of color. Biden pacifying the rights racial resentment could just end up reinforcing the belief that the country has achieved racial equality or even that weve gone too far, and white people are now the ones who are disadvantaged.

But changing these destabilizing trends is probably something that needs to start from the right. Thats because many of the beliefs and behaviors threatening American democracy started earlier and are more pronounced on that end of the political spectrum. Yes, both sides engage in dehumanization, delegitimization and conspiracy-mongering, but both sides have not gone about it in the same way, or at the same rate.

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~Peaf~