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It is very obvious why people are increasingly mad about politics all the time

The case against social media

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Ben Dreyfuss
Aug 02, 2021
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“We are way, way angrier about politics than we used to be,” Kevin Drum writes in the latest issue of Mother Jones, “something confirmed by both common experience and formal research.”

The point of the piece is to identify the cause of our angry culture war nightmare. What is the main driver of this problem?

The facts of the case are this: this thing, th…

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