In-Party Love, Out-Party Hate, and Affective Polarization in Twelve Democracies

Interesting in the second graph, the countries which we traditionally consider to be well working societies are those where out-hate has not crossed in-love

>The trends reported from our data generally support Gidron et al.’s (2020) conclusion of a gradual decline of in-party liking

Get offline. Meet people. Most people want the same thing. This is honestly crazy that we do this to ourselves

Gtfo with this. The problem is not ‘polarization’ it’s that so many people are willingly and knowingly cruel when they get the chance.