Yeah, its scary that PG is morphing into a liberal social media celebrity. Especially with a contextless outraged tone like this. I never understood this kind

Yeah, its scary that PG is morphing into a liberal social media celebrity. Especially with a contextless outraged tone like this. I never understood this kind of easy and emotionally gratifying slacktivism. Considering his wealth and influence, if he cared so much about DP issues, why doesn't he fund or start a think tank or policy lobbyist organization to fight it? Yelling at governors seems incredibly short-sighted and knee-jerk to me. I don't think this helps matters politically, it just builds echo chambers and extremism. I don't know any liberals, for example, who would remotely consider any conservative view, or vice-versa. There's a real "internet identity poltics" aspect going on here we just take on face value and don't criticize. Even criticizing the default liberal position on the sites like HN, reddit, etc is just an invitation to downvote hell, no wonder we can't have any kind of interesting discourse on these forums. The majority group can just downvote you into censorship. It sad that if you're into tech sites you have to tolerate and unquestionably deal with angry liberal screeds all the time and never be able to hear a rounded commentary. We're not building common ground with our political opposites, we're not enlightening anyone, etc. We're just yelling and being angry. What exactly do we expect to happen here? Nothing has happened since John Edwards had complained about the "Two Americas" back in 2004. If anything, things have somehow gotten worse since. I suspect low information twitter, reddit, tumblr, facebook, etc protests are a contributing factor. This is especially worrying as we see the left consistantly lose elections in congress, the senate, the state legislature, and the state governor's offices. As a left-leaning moderate, this is not good and the left and far left are failing to appeal to voters, which means conservatives will continue to win office and implement conservative policies.