Terry Copeland shared this article with us recently.
It seems like everyone is talking about toxic division and polarization. In response, you might have wondered, “America has always had a lot of disagreement and conflict. How is this different?”
Or maybe you’ve thought: “But it makes sense for us to be polarized when the ‘other side’ is so horrible and dangerous.” Being divided can seem to make sense when we see “them” as hurting the country or our community, as behaving in authoritarian ways, or whatever it is we see that arouses our anger.
So let’s dig into what people mean when they talk about the problem of polarization.
Click on this link.
https://startswith.us/2023/11/07/why-is-polarization-a-problem-isnt-it-normal-for-us-to-strongly-disagree/?_kx=z_GcHAv739yZFf1v_lfUCL0eqo24ItDob923yb6f7WI.TAzfUF