Sarah McBride
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567 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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One of the best things about being an elected official is that I have to break out of that social media.
echo chamber, that social media extreme world and interact with everyday people.
And you see, yeah, there are real disagreements, but that 80% of the doomed scrollers or the people who aren't even on social media are actually in a place where we can have a conversation with them.
I think they would differ in two ways.
One, they would differ in the issues that we would focus on, right?
What you hear on social media is a preoccupation with sort of the most inflamed culture war issues that you almost never hear when you're out talking to voters in any part of the state.
What you hear is...
A understandable catastrophizing around democracy, which you don't hear nearly as much when you're out talking to voters.
What you hear when you're talking to voters is you hear about the cost of living.
You hear about the bread and butter issues that are keeping people up at night, people who aren't on social media or aren't posting on social media.
And so you hear a difference in priorities, but then you also hear a difference in approach.
People are hungry for an approach that doesn't treat our fellow citizens as enemies, but rather treats our fellow citizens as neighbors, even if we disagree with them.
An approach that's just, an approach that's filled with grace.
And I think on social media, we have come to this conclusion, rightfully so, that people's grace has been abused in our society.
That the grace of marginalized people, the patience of marginalized people has been abused.
And that is true.
But on social media, the course correction to that has been to eliminate all grace from our politics.
It's how dare you have conversations with people who disagree with you?
How dare you be willing to work with people who disagree with you?
How dare you compromise?
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