#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #domesticpolicy
„[P]roblems that are … existential for Israel — its growing international #isolation, its #braindrain & economic woes, its tremendous domestic #polarization, its creeping annexation of the West#Bank, #Gaza’s instability, #Hamas’s future — all sit on the back burner. Victory over Iran would no doubt transform the country’s security prospects (…) But it will not be enough to mend the country’s deepest #divisions.“
#PhD #position Social cohesion and #climate #polarization: how to communicate effectively about climate change
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The GOP Is Over: Former MAGA Member Declares Trump’s Party Has Won
A former MAGA activist apologizes and admits the movement succeeded in transforming the GOP into a Trump-loyalist party. What does this mean for democracy?
#authoritarianism #democracy #DonaldTrump #IndependentMedia #MAGA #NeverTrump #partyTakeover #polarization #politicalAccountability #politicalRealignment #RepublicanParty #USPolitics https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oKs
Coincidentally, I came across a passage in How Democracies Die that describes the Obama administration’s diplomatic negotiations with Iran. These negotiations were carried out without congressional approval, reflecting the deep polarization of US politics at the time. So much so that executive agreements were increasingly used as a workaround.
This contrasts with the current US regime, which has fully succumbed to radicalized dynamics within its democracy. Polarization began intensifying in the late 1970s, reaching a peak in the 2010s and ultimately paving the way for a populist outsider to come to power.
Just don't discuss politics in the workplace. At least, not outside lunch hours. Personally, I find it a bit unprofessional but that's me...
"“The workplace is kind of a hub for what’s happening out in civil society,” says Sara Rahim, who serves as a social impact strategist and program manager at SHRM. “So if we’re seeing greater polarization just in the state of America right now, naturally that’s going to translate into the workplace. She also cites generational differences as a point of tension.
Heidi Brooks, a senior lecturer in organizational behavior at Yale University, who has spent years working on how organizations can improve employee culture, argues that promoting civility is often overlooked as an organizational goal.
“We pay a lot of attention to productivity… but we often overlook accountability for creating a workplace where people can thrive,” she says.
Could America’s colleges and universities train the next generation of workers to be a little more civil with each other? With such a large number of Americans now pursuing higher education, these institutions can play a major role in preparing students to navigate differences in the workplace.
Indeed, that’s the goal of the Bridging Differences in Higher Education Playbook, released last year by the Greater Good Science Center. The playbook features science-backed strategies that administrators, academics, and students can use to build their skills for bridging differences."
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/teaching_the_next_generation_how_to_disagree_at_work
"In the survey, conducted in January, X users were the only group in which a majority, just barely over 50 percent, expressed “strong” or “somewhat” approval of Donald Trump. His approval was significantly lower among consumers of news from “podcasts and YouTube,” local television, and even Facebook. Among people reading “newspapers or news websites,” browsing Reddit, watching broadcast television or scrolling TikTok or Instagram to keep up with current events, the numbers were, as Jain described them, “catastrophic.” He noted, “If you’re largely getting your news from Twitter, you might not even know that Trump is unpopular, because you wouldn’t even see a lot of the backlash.”
Last week, in a study published in Nature, a group of researchers attempted to answer a sensible follow-up question: So what? People organize around news sources that flatter their beliefs, and in a fragmented news environment, you would expect different attitudes to be associated with venues that have developed a clear partisan identity. Well, it turns out that the engine of Musk’s X — its algorithmic “For You” page — is an ideological ratchet..."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/x-really-is-pulling-users-to-the-right.html
#SocialMedia #Twitter #Algorithms #Polarization #RecommendationAlgorithms
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