Throughout the last few years, people have used their voices to speak out and talk about their opinions on social media platforms. Differences were shared and conversations were sparked until that spark made a flame. Politics is a heavy topic now you are either too uncomfortable to bring it up or ready for an all-out argument over who is right and who is stupid.

When politics first started to take over social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and even Instagram it became divisive and a way for people to rant about the wrongs of politicians and the “dumb” ways others think. Everyone thinks differently and because of that, we have different solutions to problems. 

All over the world people are just different from the color of their skin to the neighborhoods or people they grow up with and live with. The contrast of human beings is what makes us human, no one is the same which is why we don’t think the same. Perception is the way we see and understand concepts and life. 

On social media when politics are brought up there are typically two sides, not every time but the most heard and outspoken are liberals and conservatives. In a book titled The Righteous Mind by author Jonathon Haidt, he discusses the divisiveness of “Why good people are divided by politics and religion”  The author makes an intelligent point by explaining how we all have our ideas of solutions and believe our own to be righteous and true but many others are trying to solve the same problem that believes their solution to be the right one. In the book, the author uses this as one of his main points “People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds” 

          Social media became a place where people can hide their faces and rant about their feelings and what’s going wrong in the world. As people spoke out about issues and how they would solve them more people spoke out against those people saying that they were wrong which created arguments that then created division.

          With tweets going out about what politicians do wrong or how poorly the government is doing it became easy for millions of people to view those tweets and give their opinion on them. By doing this conversation starts but there are millions of different perspectives and views joining in which generates arguments and name-calling.

          With these platforms, it became hard to have conversations that were calm and educational. Instead, they became aggressive and made people more stubborn in their beliefs and their thoughts. In this modern world, it’s harder for people to think outside of what they already believe. When people think a certain way and get stuck in that way of thinking it’s hard for them to see the other side.

         With  Social media you don’t have to listen to the other side, you just defend your own and argue until you’re done typing. The politics being so heavy and social media being so popular the two combined to create a divisive society that made it even more difficult to just have a good old-fashioned conversation and learn some things and grow.