Biden steps aside and Harris will probably be the democrats’ nominee in the presidential election.
In an experiment measuring the distance between random individuals, Milgram sent several packages to random people, instead of sending them to those who were supposed to get those packages. He asked those random people (who most probably didn’t know the final recipient) to send the packages to someone they thought might know someone who knows the final recipient. So for example, if the final recipient was in city B and the package was sent to someone living in city A, then the person who got the package could send that to someone he or she knew living in a city closer to B (compared to A). This process could be repeated several times until the package was eventually delivered to the final recipient.
In polarized environments, it’s beneficial that people realize viewpoints that are apparently so remote can be linked via some networks. Imagine this:
A statement about Harris’s policy (on some issues) is sent to a supporter of Harris. That person (A) should send that statement to someone (B) whose viewpoint is close enough to A. Then B should modify the statement (for example a limited number of characters can be modified similar to a tweet). So A should choose B with caution because when the text is sent to B, A has no say on how the text can be modified. So A should trust B that the way B will modify the text will be more or less acceptable to A. This process will be repeated several times. B sends the text to C. Although A might not know C at all but trusts B because A knows B.
In the process, the text might be sent to people who don’t support Harris at all (and so they may disagree with the original text) but the modified text they send to others is more or less acceptable to them.
In a polarized environment, these intermediary nodes in the network are missing. So there will be a clash between two endpoints of a path in a network. One endpoint is a supporter of Harris and the other endpoint is a supporter of Trump and they think they can’t agree on anything the other one says. In this situation, polarization can be reduced by establishing nodes that connect those endpoints.
Since Trump may ignite polarization during the election, it can be a good strategy for Harris’s campaign to work on de-polarizing techniques. So that those who don’t support her directly, are included in the network and vote for her because of that.
UPDATE 1:
So there will be a website where people can email the text to people they know and a list of the sequence of the modified texts will be viewable to everyone. People will then decide when they start to disagree with the texts they send to others. So for example after 5-6 modifications the text might no longer be acceptable by the first person.