Rep. Sarah McBride
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first heard Mar 2026
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are either not real or they're the most extreme voices that are expressing in many cases their understandable frustration and anger, but obviously not in ways that are the most constructive or productive for us to invite people in for a conversation.
We can't shame and blame our way out of this.
If shame and blame worked in today's day and age to stop cultural regression, we wouldn't be in this place right now.
We've been trying that for years and it doesn't work.
It's just pushed people further and further away from us.
Yes, grace has been abused.
in the history of our country, but the course correction for that cannot be to eliminate all grace from our politics.
And I think that that is a case study in the problem in our politics right now driven by the algorithms.
And I'll get to what we can do about it.
But when we go online, 100% of the content that we see is reflective of maybe 10% of the public.
It's the loudest, most extreme voices on both sides, and the algorithm lifts it up.
And it tells us that everyone either 100% agrees with me or 100% disagrees with me because we only get content that either completely conforms to our preexisting biases or outrages us so much we are driven to anger and grievance and hatred toward whoever is saying that or their coalition.
And one of the blessings that I have as an elected official is I am forced to touch grass.
I am required as part of my occupation to go out and have conversations in the real world with people who disagree with me about the things that they disagree with me on.
And what you see when that is your every day, when you're having political conversations, but political conversations not online and in the real world, is that we are not as divided as the algorithm makes it seem.
Most people, the ones who are doomed scrolling, not doomed posting, or not online at all, most people are good people, decent people, who, yes, we have real disagreements with, but who you can have a conversation with, who you can reason with, who you can, over time, change their minds.
And the greatest threat to me in our democracy right now
is that false perception of reality that social media drives.
Because when everyone seems like they are 100% with you or 100% against you, it becomes very easy to lose faith in the possibility for persuasion.
in the point of conversation across disagreement.
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