I agree about the original outrage bait, but I disagree that the resulting outrage is not scary. > Article after article of why you should be terrified of the

I agree about the original outrage bait, but I disagree that the resulting outrage is not scary. > Article after article of why you should be terrified of the existential threat that hyperpoliticization represents to our society. Why shouldn't I be terrified that nearly 1,000 people attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of power in the US on Jan 6, and something like 30% of the country agrees with their cause? How is it not terrifying that so many elected officials get death threats, and there was a botched plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan? To make it more personal: a friend listed me as a co-organizer of a demonstration to support the counting of votes in the US (i.e. we were opposed to throwing out thousands of votes, which the courts prevented in the end anyway). A few days later, the FBI warned us that our names and addresses were on Oathkeepers message boards. They advised us to cancel the demonstration for our safety, which we did. Let's assume at least one of those people really wanted to kill me. The original outrage bait that made him so angry was certainly fake, but his outrage was absolutely real. I can stop reading news and social media, but that doesn't solve the problem of all the other people who are reading it.