The Red Teaming of Teen Depression and Suicidal Ideation

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Hannity: We need to sort of bring that scientific attitude into politics where these are my ideas and let's talk to somebody who disagrees. He says if we ever get to that point places like Fox News it'll be a losing business proposition because people won't want that kind of news anymore. People will want both points of view and they'll want cross-party discussion, he says. Hannity: It can happen you just have to have the right context in which people feel as though they can learn both sides of the issue.

The democratic ideal demands that the citizenry think critically about matters of public import. Yet many Democrats and Republicans in the United States have fallen short of that standard because political tribalism motivates them to acquire, perceive and evaluate political information in a biased manner. The result is an electorate that is more extreme, hostile and willing to reject unfavorable democratic outcomes.

Shermer and Redmond discuss: why we have political duopoly (Duverger’s law) • parties vs. policies • Are we living in a post-truth, fake-news, alternative facts world? • How do we know political polarization is worse now than in the past? • acquiring, perceiving, and evaluating political information • evaluating: false political information, political numbers and arguments, claims of rigged election • whataboutism • cognitive responsibilities of citizenship • cognitive biases • political polarization • myside bias • numeracy vs. innumeracy • solutions to the polarization problem.

Timothy J. Redmond received his PhD in political science from the University at Buffalo. He is an award-winning educator and author of over one hundred articles on critical thinking and politics. He is a professor at Daemen University where he teaches a political science and history course for education students.