Is the Drift of Conservatives on Social Media a Harbinger of  a Coming Civil War?
Channel: Majpalmer
Date: 12/11/2020

There seems to be a post election acceleration of people leaving Twitter and Facebook for alternative social media websites. Platforms, which were initially meant to be sites where people could come together, have instead become the home of increasingly partisan users operating under restrictions imposed by heavy handed, left-leaning, overseers. Conservatives have been moving out--seceding--for some time, but since 3 November that movement has accelerated, much as the Southern States left the Union after the election of 1860.  Is this movement on social media yet another harbinger of a coming civil war? Are we watching yet another American institution designed to provide a novel form of social consensus, instead be destroyed by partisan politics?