I see a dynamic on Twitter a lot where a person who is probably aligned with the retweeter is thrown under the bus to demonstrate the purity of the retweeter.

I see a dynamic on Twitter a lot where a person who is probably aligned with the retweeter is thrown under the bus to demonstrate the purity of the retweeter. The retweeted person is usually misrepresented or uncharitable interpreted. Why so much friendly fire? It is hard to imagine we can truly heal discourse across a political divide when we cannot even do nice to our neighbors on the spectrum.