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Polarization distorts reality. But Portugal already knows that.
Mark Sappenfield
Yesterday, the folks at Axios hit a point I don鈥檛 hear enough: Polarization warps our view of the world. They called it It鈥檚 like a fun-house mirror. Polarization鈥檚 winner-take-all mentality makes things seem worse than they are; everything becomes apocalyptic.
That鈥檚 why I appreciate Dominique Soguel鈥檚 story today from Portugal. As elsewhere in the world, immigration is a huge topic there. As elsewhere, there are formidable challenges. But the country has taken a different approach. Read Dominique鈥檚 story, and you get a glimpse of what the subject looks like with less distortion.聽聽聽聽
