The American Press Is Destroying Itself
The US seems to have fallen into a game-theoretic local minimum where each party lets their crazy cousin go throw dumb rocks at the opposition because it seems to be the optimal way to drum up fanatic support for their side, all the while whistling as if in ignorance of what&#x27;s going on.  At least that&#x27;s how it seemed to start, now it&#x27;s just devolved to outright scat slinging that&#x27;s co-opted our system of government into a soap opera.  It would almost be funny if the poo slingers weren&#x27;t the very people that make and enforce the laws that we all have to live by.<p>Our political parties need to <i>clean their damn houses</i>.  It&#x27;s not the right&#x27;s job to deal with the radical left, and it&#x27;s not the left&#x27;s job to deal with the radical right.  Both sides need to take out their trash so we can actually get something done.<p>We need a way to argue against a steelman opposing argument instead of always a strawman.  We need to be capable of updating our opinions without risking career suicide.  We need something that allows us to deal with the meta problems like fallacies and trolls and half-refutations paraded around as victories.  We need to be able to hold arguments with <i>depth</i> and <i>nuance</i>.