I dont think the main problem is the echo chambers, I think the bigger issue is the growing inequality, especially in the red states. The declining quality of healthcare, education, and the overall access to the social ladder has made people desperate. They buy their team's hyperbolic rhetoric that the source of their declining prospects is the POCs, immigrants, and the shadowy liberal elites. They dehumanize those groups, and do nothing as the authorities forcibly remove children from their parents, then parents from their reproductive organs. They blame the victims of violent police encounters, and then celebrate civilians who murder those that speak against it. I think the echo chambers are just more fuel for the fire, including with the rise in people turning away from science and reason and who march against GMOs, climate change action, and vaccines.
The source is inequality, and history is repeating itself.
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