What If We Aren’t As Divided As They Tell Us We Are?
Someone is benefitting from polarization, and it’s not us.
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4 min readDec 19, 2021
“Do you think we are headed towards civil war?” The question is jarring, but not absurd.
It was two weeks before the 2020 elections and I was sitting in my living room on a Zoom call when it was asked. I glanced over at my child, who was reading on the…