I fear our society is too damaged to repair

[Binkie The Clown]

8. I'm old enough to remember

when people at work gathered at lunch time to discuss and chuckle over the latest episode of I Love Lucy, because it was the only thing on TV. But because it was the only thing on, it was something that everyone shared.

But seriously, I am surrounded by kind people of all political stripes who respect each other and treat each other with kindness and consideration. My neighborhood id full of people like that. What I don't do is spend any time at all watching cable news or reading social media. DU is the only site of a political nature I visit, and I tend to visit it more rarely as time goes on and I see the same inconclusive arguments made over and over.

It seems to me that the things that you are complaining about are things that happen online. In that case, I think you're right. But in the real world, the world of the 75% of the adult population (i.e, over 30) that pays little or no attention to social media, it's a different story.

For the record: I'm 76.