Likewise. What's dismaying is that there's no practical way on Facebook to have civil discussions about politics, it just doesn't work. I don't think it'd even

Likewise. What's dismaying is that there's no practical way on Facebook to have civil discussions about politics, it just doesn't work. I don't think it'd even be all that hard. What you'd want to do is have a mode for contentious topics whereby personal identities are hidden, so there's no personal investment and only ideas are presented. And you'd want to be able to cite problems with a claim, i.e. you select some text to flag "this is confusing / inflammatory / unsupported," so that people don't go in circles because they don't understand each other or can deal with something that's insulting by having the person tone it down.