I live in Newfoundland -- our healthcare system doesn't suck because of right wing assholes exactly, in my opinion, it sucks because Newfoundland politics is rife with nepotism and cronyism.
I would still rather this than a world where my family can be bankrupted if someone gets the wrong sickness at the wrong time.
In short, in order for democracy to work, we need shared trust. To have shared trust, we need a common basis of reality.
Our current unregulated informational landscape fragments reality and polarizes people because it is the most profitable thing to do, but it is death to a functioning society.
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