It used to be that you knew if your neighbor was a liberal so-and-so or a conservative so-and-so, but it didn’t come up that much in a everyday life. You could still be neighborly, and politics mostly played out in the privacy of the voting booth. One of the few ways someone would make it known what they really thought was if they wrote a letter to the editor, but that was rarely an everyday thing.
But nowadays, people seem obsessed with sharing everything. They let it all hang out, in writing, and depending on the medium, accessible to hundreds or thousands or millions. And, since no one wants to be wrong, when the inevitable pushback arrives, people double down on their views, go in search of and easily find corroborating sources for *whatever* they believe, and get backed into tighter and tighter corners of extreme ideology.
Ending and Beginning 
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