Americans Don’t Know How to Talk to Each Other Anymore

What Happens When a Society Stops Being Able to Communicate?

Image Credit: Timothy Swanson 

If I say “Americans are”…anything…a certain kind of person explodes in rage, immediately. They tell me that they’re not that thing — racist, violent, whatever — and so of course all Americans can’t be. Bang. Whatever discussion we were about to have is now over. And instead, I’m standing there, being verbally assaulted by s…