Provide differing diagnoses for what political scientists call “polarization,” the idea that US political culture increasingly and irreparably divided along ideological lines, liberal vs. conservative.

Read:
The articles by Griffin and Neimand from The Conversation (2017) and by Rensin from Vox (2016)
https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism
provide differing diagnoses for what political scientists call “polarization,” the idea that US political culture increasingly and irreparably divided along ideological lines, liberal vs. conservative.

ASSIGNMENT- Drawing upon AT LEAST TWO of the major concepts/topics WE HAVE COVERED this semester, RESPOND to these TWO ARTICLES and provide your own explanation of (a) what is happening in politics AND (b) what might be done about it using the concepts of critical thinking.

Possible concepts/topics include but are not limited to: philosophy as questioning, neuroplasticity and technology, search engines and news media, the limits of perception/memory/judgment, scientific methods, four types of inductive reasoning (statistics, causation, abduction, analogies), the fact/opinion dichotomy, and others.