It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

The media will portray the GOP convention in New York as a show staged to make Republicans look more tolerant and compassionate than they really are.

It is time for America once again to try living with inequality, as life is lived.