YeeterOfWorlds

Republicans are in a pretty difficult spot.

A sizable chunk of Republican voters are adamantly against abortion, viewing it as murder and thus are unwilling to compromise on it. These people often support other Republican policies, but for many abortion is the ultimate issue. Some of them even oppose many Republican policies (I know a bunch of Catholics. Plenty of anticapitalist Catholics or one's who support stronger social programs, vote Republican because of abortion. This demographic is why Louisiana gets some anti-abortion Democrats in office.)

To gain moderate voters, they have to alienate the very motivated anti-abortion voters. Alienating a sizable chunk of your voter base many of whom are reliable voters who vote in all elections, to gain new moderate voters, is a risky move.

But we don't, and we are seeing what this means for the health of democracy and the rule of law.

If you're going to blame multiple news sources/commentators (that all Americans do not swim in the same information ecosystem), wouldn't it then become a matter of whether or not democracy itself is a viable system?

As in, if the only way a democracy can remain healthy is if all citizen "lived and swam in the same information ecosystem.", Then how would it be possible to have a democracy? Like, how do we have a free healthy democracy, and enforce the existence of a singular "information ecosystem" at the same time? That sounds impossible.