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Is it possible in this day and age for an individual to be truly nonpartisan? Or are we pretty much wired to join one faction over the other?
As I watch people on Facebook unfollowing, unfriending, blocking, and deleting their friends and family who post their support of the opposing faction, I have to wonder what will come of us within our partisanship filtered social media bubbles? We already likely choose one news media source slanted and biased to our particular preferred views, so why not expand those criteria to every domain of our lives?
Has partisanship become thicker than blood? Has compromise and civilty been forever lost except for in the history books? Are people even capable of agreeing to disagree anymore or is every contention now grounds for a swift decent into ridicule?
As I watch people on Facebook unfollowing, unfriending, blocking, and deleting their friends and family who post their support of the opposing faction, I have to wonder what will come of us within our partisanship filtered social media bubbles? We already likely choose one news media source slanted and biased to our particular preferred views, so why not expand those criteria to every domain of our lives?
Has partisanship become thicker than blood? Has compromise and civilty been forever lost except for in the history books? Are people even capable of agreeing to disagree anymore or is every contention now grounds for a swift decent into ridicule?