It’s hard to know what “breaks” someone – which moment the person they used to be, or seemed like they used to be, disappeared and the shattered psyche shell that occupies the space in which they used to live now resides – but our country is full of broken people now. The vast majority of broken people seem to have been crushed by politics, ego or both. And nothing broke more people than Donald Trump. He didn’t do it, his existence did. Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, and it has swept through both sides of the aisle. It begs the question: Were people always this way and we just didn’t notice?

While I enjoy social media (and you should follow me on Twitter, it’s quite good), and love podcasts (you should subscribe to mine, too, as it is excellent), I’m not sure they’re a net “good” for society. Yes, we have free will and what we choose, we choose, but we also can now create silos of seclusion where we construct a world to live in that is distinctly different from the real world. 

We can follow who we agree with and like and block everything else out. That does create a perverse world view because it’s not a real view; it’s incomplete. That changes the way people act toward others, especially those who disagree. 

While leftists tend to be most impacted by this – there are plenty of........

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