Somehow stop media from profiting from emotions. You get mad at a Facebook post and post a reply about it. Facebooks algorithms see that you respond to this type of posts so it gives you more and sells advertising that makes you mad too. Radio has for fifty years put people on air that say things to stir negative emotions because it's easy to make people mad. And people tune in again to get mad at them over and over.

Yeah, I ask myself that too. Maybe this has all been boiling under the surface for a long time, but the acceleration feels quicker and quicker since Trump became an every day household name.

I know a lot of the political polarization we have now is due to Newt Gingrich normalizing obstruction-no-matter-what as a political strategy. But it still kind of doesn't make sense to me no matter how I think of it. People really ought to be less manipulable than this. The internet must be a large chunk of the problem, but we obviously cannot put that cat back into the bag at this point.