How Social Media Is Ruining Politics

When a person thinks of neurobiology of their brain they often don’t connect it to politics and how it can polarize a person, but what if they were greatly connected in many ways? Few people see this connection between their brain and politics because it is not obvious, but may not agree with it and believe there is another and bigger cause to our polarization. They believe this cause is social media. Experts say polarization in America has become an underlying problem in due to the persuasive social media, and the dominate neurobiology of our brains. Sources believe social media is a large aspect to why Americans are drastically polarized today. In an article by Nicholas Carr called “How Social Media Is Ruining Politics” Carr states “The

That can cause the opposing party to see the information and automatically resent it and shut it out thus becoming more polarized. Another article named “Divided We Now Stand” by Susan Page states information that explains social media and how it makes Americans more polarized. Page states” A majority on both sides say politics are more divided because both parties have changed: Democrats becoming more liberal and Republicans more conservative.” This statement that Page made is due to social media which she talks about in the article. Social media does have an effect on a person’s political view because people often are

In an article by Brian Resnick named “How Politics Breaks Our Brains, And How We Can Put Them Back Together” he describes “A team of British scientist published a paper and found that brain structures correlated with political orientation. Specifically, conservatives tended to have larger amygdala areas—brain matter that plays a role in fear conditioning—than liberals.” These findings make a lot of sense to people because it’s the way a person believes from when they are young. Also, many people will stand firmly behind what they believe in because they are often surrounded by people that have the same beliefs about politics. In a video by Hannah Holmes called “Red Brain, Blue Brain: The Neurobiology of Political Values” she states “In Personality testing the brains are very different. In the brain function there are differences. In the brain structure there are differences.” With this statement she is talking about how different the blue brain, other known as the Democratic brain, is from the red brain, other known as the Republican brain. Holmes also claims “A red brain perceives emotions that are more threating and dominate than a blue brain sees.” This statement although not always necessarily true makes Americans feel a sense of