It is sad that in our beautiful country, we have two such distinct parallel realities. A person can now, for the first time in our history, reasonably live inside a bubble of manufactured facts depending on one’s viewpoint. How can democracy survive when we can’t even agree on a basic fact anymore?

Our greatest strength is in our ability to compromise and form a more perfect union. We have done this throughout our long history even in times of war and economic hardship. Yet we have not been able to manage this almost 20-plus years into the internet becoming the dominant force in our lives, and we show no signs of being able to change now.

Jordan Merenick

Tarentum

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