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  • The descent into tribalism

    Jonathan Martin|Updated Oct 27, 2021

    I just listened to a politician whose ideas I agree with. But the way these ideas were communicated was, quite honestly, reprehensible. He condemned the individual testifying before the committee with a host of judgmental adjectives: “arrogant, prideful, vindictive, jealous, disingenuous, ignorant, hypocritical.” It was an all-out frontal attack on this man’s character and intelligence. This “attack” was featured on YouTube and has been watched nearly a million times with some 6,000 comments about how marvelously he tore t... Full story