Status Updates From How Democracies Die

I literally forgot that our functioning society is based on social contracts and my mind is blown like I didn’t take ethics classes and get a degree in philosophy

“But when societies grow so deeply divided that parties become wedded to incompatible world view, and especially when their members are so socially segregated that they rarely interact, stable partisan rivals leaves eventually give way to perceptions of mutual threat as mutual toleration disappears, politicians, grow tempted to abandon forbearances and try to win at all cost.” “Democracy is in trouble.”