> In the younger circles, it seems like there's a very brief period of telegraphing your "tribe", and once you detect the matching cues you can assume you know pretty much everything about the other's point of view

This is just a sign of a lack of sophistication, afaik it isn't purely generational

A couple weeks ago someone said to me that lying was a "violation of the first amendment" and I asked them "what's in the first amendment?" just to hear some dumbfounded response

A bunch of voters in this country are only functionally literate and it's depressing