> At least to my eye, in the US, political polarization seems less than in the mid-19th Century, or the mid-20th century (HUAC-McCarthy-Civil Rights-Vietnam-Wat

> At least to my eye, in the US, political polarization seems less than in the mid-19th Century, or the mid-20th century (HUAC-McCarthy-Civil Rights-Vietnam-Watergate era). There were divisions over certain topics but not over almost every single topic and people cared about truth to an extent. And there were many common grounds in the 60s it feels like, at least when it comes to supporting your country and the union. There was no fascist vibe on one end and kill rich people and change how democracy works vibe on the other end. I can tell someone something is true and we can't even agree on basic underlying facts to talk it out. Before the interner you had tv and news papers as a source of some truth about politics. Anything is fake news and propaganda now