The chaos we see today is a reaction between our First-Past-The-Post voting system and high engagement social media. It's like mixing vinegar and baking soda.

The chaos we see today is a reaction between our First-Past-The-Post voting system and high engagement social media. It's like mixing vinegar and baking soda. The voting system encourages extremist candidates, and the social media platforms engage the least nuanced voters to primary (something that they never did before). The main stream media follows ratings and legitimizes these extremist views. The ultimate outcome is a political discourse that is gradually promoting zero-tolerance, zero-discourse, and a slow march to the normalization of political violence. I'm not sure people recognize the danger escalating polarization is causing. The mere mention of it as a systemic issue is usually met with a "both sides" dismissal, which is very discouraging. We need to reformat social media and/or change the voting system, or there will be violence. The purpose of democracy is to obviate political violence by forcing different views to the table to discuss and compromise. Social media is silences those who even suggest that path - making violence inevitable. Compromise has become the eighth deadly sin.