What are the implications of people clustering in Sean Hannity's America, or Rachel Maddow's?
“There are fewer people in the middle. And so politics becomes less about solving our problems anymore. It's about cheering for our side. And so we're stuck.”
The worst part about NPR is the smug assuredness it gives it's listeners that they are actually the most enlightened politics understanders. At the very same time NPR won't question pretty much any state talking points until far into the future when it was obvious the decisions the US state made were awful.
I say this as someone who listened to NPR nonstop on my way over from being a staunch religious conservative. It's real bad looking back.
That's the secret to NPR: ingroup membership. It doesn't represent the country because that's not its job. NPR's job is to reassure liberals that they're part of a big tribe that's always right. Feels-good-man.jpg