Asked&Answered: Kevin Smith
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UNL political scientist Kevin Smith talks about political polarization.
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- [00:00:05.810]Astonishing numbers of American adults
- [00:00:08.720]say politics is negatively affecting
- [00:00:11.730]their social, psychological, emotional,
- [00:00:13.920]and even physical health.
- [00:00:15.970]So roughly a fifth of Americans, for example,
- [00:00:18.640]say that they have lost sleep because of politics.
- [00:00:22.580]Roughly similar numbers say that they get depressed
- [00:00:25.640]if their candidate loses.
- [00:00:27.470]Roughly 15% say that, "I spend too much time
- [00:00:32.387]"on social media paying attention to politics
- [00:00:35.097]"and I know it's bad for me but I can stop."
- [00:00:38.160]5% of Americans say that they have considered suicide
- [00:00:42.610]because of politics.
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- [00:00:46.600]Genetics is not destiny,
- [00:00:49.600]genetics help predispose you to react certain ways
- [00:00:54.640]to whatever stimuli you find in your environment.
- [00:00:58.160]And if you're in an environment
- [00:00:59.870]where a lot of the stimuli and a lot of the messages
- [00:01:03.230]are playing on people's innate predispositions
- [00:01:08.790]to move in polarized directions,
- [00:01:11.220]you know what, you're gonna end up with a polarized society,
- [00:01:14.950]and I think that's exactly where we are right now.
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- [00:01:20.120]We have the rise of social media,
- [00:01:21.970]we have the collapse of traditional gatekeepers,
- [00:01:27.740]people can live in their own echo chambers.
- [00:01:29.430]We essentially live in an environment
- [00:01:31.810]where if you have a predisposition
- [00:01:34.130]to move strong one way on a political issue,
- [00:01:39.750]this is an environment that is like tailor-made for that.
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