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    Jean Guerrero: Is polarization a problem, or just a reality because the far right has lost its mind?

    What's so bad about polarization? I see the divides between factions of Americans as a troubling problem that we should all be striving to address. But lately I keep running into smart people who disagree. Earlier this month, I was on a PEN World Voices Festival panel at the L.A. Central Library with author and TV producer Reza Aslan and Hollywood's Black List founder Franklin Leonard. Each ...
    by Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times Jun 01, 2023 3 minutes
    Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5, 2021.

    What's so bad about polarization?

    I see the divides between factions of Americans as a troubling problem that we should all be striving to address. But lately I keep running into smart people who disagree.

    Earlier this month, I was on a PEN World Voices Festival panel at the L.A. Central Library with author and TV producer Reza Aslan and Hollywood's Black List founder Franklin Leonard. Each said focusing on "polarization" can promote a false equivalency.

    "It is a fact that other Americans are a direct threat to my way of life," Leonard said. "It is

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