Greg Sterling | Source | VP of Insights at Uberall

While social media isn't entirely to blame for the heightened state of our political divisions, it has definitely made things worse than they would have been in its absence. It's much easier to toss out invective in a tweet than over the phone, in print or in person. Social media shouldn't be scapegoated but we should also recognize the disruptive and destructive role it has played in our national political discourse, if we can still call it that.