Putting it Together...Bit by Bit
This last week has been...rough. Going on Facebook, for me, has involved wincing. From Trump being inaugurated to the Women's March, there has been so much division and negativity. I've been trying to process it all. Feelings are strong. Opinions are set. I have thoughts...several, in fact. Some of my observations about the current atmosphere on Facebook are as follows: One problem I see is that both sides of the political spectrum attack the most extreme ends of the other side. For example, conservatives may view liberal women who marched as nothing but abortion-loving fiends. Liberal women who marched may view all conservative women as out of touch and in denial of reality. I would bet a lot of money on the fact that the vast majority of us are more moderate than it would seem–you just don't see any sense of being moderate on Facebook these days. We feel that in order to reinforce our views we must be harsh and intense. Another problem–political posts on Facebook...