Part of the issue, though, is that the political problems we're dealing with right now are a lot more foundational, and the places we talk about them have becom

Part of the issue, though, is that the political problems we're dealing with right now are a lot more foundational, and the places we talk about them have become more integrated. It's easy to not talk about the politics of women in the workplace if you're all white advertising executives - who cares? Or to not talk about religion if it's implicit that everybody in your town is Methodist, and goes to the one Methodist church there. That's just no longer the case in most places. Even in those small towns, the Internet exists, and people can choose beliefs other than the ones they're raised with. It's not that we don't need to learn to get along with people who believe things that are different than what we believe, it's that our beliefs are so much more different now than we thought, and so much more visible.