Are you a 'la la la, I can't hear you' liberal? | Frances Robinson

A new study suggests that liberals have the same confirmation biases as right-wing people. That's why we all need to do a better job at listening to others

It's been a year of polarizing decisions. The US election, Brexit: a world of binary choices where everyone who disagrees is a hater, a loser, a deplorable, a fascist or a deplorable loser fascist hater. Worldwide, people - whether that's "coastal metropolitan elite citizens" or "honest hardworking rural folk" - have retreated into their bubble, an echo chamber where they are only confronted with news which conforms with their existing worldview.

The internet, initially envisioned as a wonderful tool which would bring us all closer together, has unfortunately been instrumental in this. From Senator Daniel Moynihan saying everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts, we've come to a world where wildly divergent facts are available, as succinctly shown by the Wall Street Journal's "Blue Feed, Red Feed," graphic.