Why are we so politically divided?

[lindysalsagal]

9. Women's equality and hispanic emmigration, and the interwebs.

It used to be a good-ol-(white) boy's world.

We all watched the same 3 network channels and in those days, reporters kept to the script. Without the interwebs, people had little understanding of the truth of what really went on in the background. What yo don't know CAN hurt you.

Now, not only do we have unlimited outlets for information, we also have each other in our social media, and we, the people, are driving the message.

Everyone is now a broadcaster, with their own TV studio in their pocket.

And we've always had the right-wing "moral majority," but they didn't have their own media, nor did regular people have a way of contributing.

I also think the first Iraq/Kuwait occupation expanded the "news" industry and the tv news expanded and specialized.

Religion figured out how to harness it all, and, voila: Politicians were forced to clarify every minutae of policy detail, when in previous decades, they made pretty speeches and didn't go there.

It's the technology world, and everything is getting reduced to binary form: Coke/pepsi.