I think one of the driving issues are filter bubbles. The intersecting areas between different political directions is getting smaller and smaller, there exists nearly nothing that is dedicated to healthy discussion between different school of thoughts. Plattforms like youtube are making this worse, because it's recommendation algorithms are pulling people towards more extreme content instead of pulling them more to commonly agreed stuff.

At some moment we will have to agree that big online plattforms aim to change behaviour, create engagement etc. All of this has side effects and these side effects have tangible political consequences. The tangible political consequences have in turn real hard consequences for single persons and groups of people.

We technicians need to think more about the social impact of the things we build. If it is a nice business idea but is a bad idea in the sense of Kant's categorical imperative, just scrap it and move on. Ideas are cheap.

Also: get away from the screen. Meet and talk. Even wkth people with whom you disagree with. Try to keep your own bubble permeable and aim to do the same for others — you will not win your culture war anyways, so don't try to.

Instead try to widen people's horizon by taking them and their ideas seriously, even if it feels stupid to you.