political identity - politiglue https://www.politiglue.io Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:59:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 The Curve, the Clip, and the Click https://www.politiglue.io/the-curve-the-clip-and-the-click/ https://www.politiglue.io/the-curve-the-clip-and-the-click/#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:45:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=501 March 2020 forced reality back onto the screen, but the feed still tried to turn it into content. The curve is not a metaphor, the clip is not leadership, and the click is not control. In a crisis measured in bodies and time, the real test is whether we can build an information culture that treats competence and restraint as more valuable than performance.

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/the-two-minute-hate-scroll/feed/ 0 Notification Nation https://www.politiglue.io/notification-nation/ https://www.politiglue.io/notification-nation/#respond Sun, 19 Jan 2020 01:24:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=421 In January 2020, politics doesn’t arrive as a newspaper or an evening broadcast. It arrives as a push alert. The attention economy has reshaped civic life into an endless stream of click-shaped urgency, rewarding visibility over integrity and reaction over reflection. The result isn’t just polarization. It’s a citizenry trained to live without “later.”

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/notification-nation/feed/ 0 The Year the Feed Learned Your Triggers https://www.politiglue.io/the-year-the-feed-learned-your-triggers/ https://www.politiglue.io/the-year-the-feed-learned-your-triggers/#respond Sun, 22 Dec 2019 09:10:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/social-change-lessons-from-historical-movements/ December 2019 closes with impeachment, primaries, and a country that feels permanently on edge. But the deeper story isn’t just what happened. It’s how the feed trained us to consume politics in fragments, perform identity, and treat constant emergency as normal. Before 2020 arrives as a “reset,” it’s worth asking what the attention economy has already rewritten in us.

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