Maybe we should put some effort into making political discourse less damaging to your mental health instead of enabling large parts of a democratic country to just shut themselves off from politics.
It's my feed should I not get a say what I see in it and what I don't?
This is what mean by ideology, the idea that it's more important to make sure I see the right things so hopefully I think the right way takes precedent over how it makes me feel. This sort of thing seems to be all what modern journalism is too, it's all through the lens of editorial now.
I don't want to be on Twitter, I'm on Twitter because Google Reader killed RSS and all the bloggers said "What's the big deal? Just use Twitter" because their follower counts going up made them feel good and now I can't get what I used to get from RSS without the unwanted side serving of (mostly) American politics.
Can that be done? The issue with politics is that the end result in enforce, often metaphorically but sometimes literally, at gunpoint. The real world implications are something that cannot be ignored, unlike a discussion of favorites teams or tv shows. Even coding standards discussions always have the realization that you can do what you want regardless of the standard and the worst case scenarios involve no longer contributing to a project or finding a different employer. Not always the nicest outcomes but still a world's away from being on the losing side of a political debate that makes it into law.
That would be nice, but the number of toxic pundits that would need to be removed from major news organisations and political parties makes it infeasible.
