One problem that feels irresolvable to me is that we need to talk about the groups doing things but those groups are rarely well coordinated, and often not even groups.
I feel like the best retort now to anything I write is: Who do you mean by Democrats/Republican/the left/the right/the media/the public health community/VCs etc
Parties and traditional media are a lot weaker than they once were. A lot of narrativizing comes from scans of social media sentiment, where you can identify the faction pushing a view, but that faction may not represent the broader group, or be internally organized
Maybe it was always like this.
Political parties used to be much more ideologically diffuse, even as they were organizationally stronger. So what did it mean to say Democrats in 1955?
But it feels particularly endemic now.
Political parties used to be much more ideologically diffuse, even as they were organizationally stronger. So what did it mean to say Democrats in 1955?
But it feels particularly endemic now.
Maybe just replace all group descriptions with "Some people, but not all people, are..."
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