Dialogue and respect is missing from modern politics

Personally I think people put far too much importance on civility and playing nice.

Not all political positions are worthy of respect.

Twitter forced members to make their point in 280 characters, so you had to be pithy and cut the nuance if you were to "win" the debate. Then it became easier to use memes, coz a picture paints a thousand words, etc. Now, here we are in a new world, dictated by the attention span of a goldfish and a message limit of under 300 characters.

Around 2015 or so.

I don't think that there was ever a golden age of civility.

That said, so much political discourse online is toxic and reactionary. I try to not be like that

Civility is not a virtue. That’s my take on it. I do frequently have civil disagreements with people over politics. Just not over the issues that make the news usually.

Started with the Tea Baggers but really took hold during the era of "Alternative Facts"

Its definitely discouraging. Id estimate somewhere around 1996?

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Well said 🌝

Revisionist history