Today I’m introducing a groundbreaking bill - the National Strategy for Social Connection Act.
It creates a federal office to combat the growing epidemic of American loneliness, develops anti-loneliness strategies, and fosters best practices to promote social connection.
https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1681350024200962053
People don’t realize how important this is. Loneliness and the fear of it is one of the biggest reasons why people fall into tribal thinking and extremism. Gangs, neo nazis, even flat earth groups survive because lonely people can find a sense of community in them. People don’t wear maga hats because they look good, they do it to make new friends.
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Any attempt at fixing things is just a whitewash job? Whatever. We might as well all march I to the sea, huh?
They literally said “this type of response”, not “every response”.
So talking about it, getting it on the radar of our leaders, maybe allocating some resources, that’s nothing-burger first step response?
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And disallowing… everything good.
Which is why conservatives are preemptively shrieking about this. They don’t want recruitment to go down.