It is harmful to the environment. That's not suggestive of political statement. It's measurable. There's tons of data on these subjects. How we characterize/organize a response to such environmental impacts can be politicized, of course, but it's a huge problem in our discourse as a country that we can't even begin discussing a problem without there being accusations of political motivation.
On the whole, Americans are determined these days to filter nearly all issues, big or small, through a political lens. Everything becomes a political choice, whether it should be or not. When Dr. Seuss is transformed into a site of political conflict, it should be a pretty solid indicator that we've reached peak partisanship. We've gone 'round the bend, as they say, and I suppose these are the consequences of 24-hour news programming, excessive online engagement, and the crafting of individual identities that are consumed by which "team" one plays for, so much so that some Americans would rather choose death than educate themselves properly on the value of COVID-19 vaccination.
I would not have said this a decade ago, but given the sheer amount of commentary-disguised-as-information and outright misinformation currently circulating in the wild, as well as the general dearth of critical thinking that the American public exercises at large, I now feel that most Americans would be much better-served reading and watching less "news," not more. As it is, responses to surveys like these in 2021 tend to say more about a person's political party identification than any genuinely-held beliefs or carefully-considered ideological positions relative to the substance of the survey itself.
On the whole, Americans are determined these days to filter nearly all issues, big or small, through a political lens. Everything becomes a political choice, whether it should be or not. When Dr. Seuss is transformed into a site of political conflict, it should be a pretty solid indicator that we've reached peak partisanship. We've gone 'round the bend, as they say, and I suppose these are the consequences of 24-hour news programming, excessive online engagement, and the crafting of individual identities that are consumed by which "team" one plays for, so much so that some Americans would rather choose death than educate themselves properly on the value of COVID-19 vaccination.
I would not have said this a decade ago, but given the sheer amount of commentary-disguised-as-information and outright misinformation currently circulating in the wild, as well as the general dearth of critical thinking that the American public exercises at large, I now feel that most Americans would be much better-served reading and watching less "news," not more. As it is, responses to surveys like these in 2021 tend to say more about a person's political party identification than any genuinely-held beliefs or carefully-considered ideological positions relative to the substance of the survey itself.
