Because good people outnumber shitty people. I really do believe this is true. However…
It’s also true that shitty people monopolize the public conversation – they just tend to be louder.
And of course the anonymity of online discourse only empowers the vocal minority of the intellectually-challenged. The whole thing is like a nightmarish self-full filling example of the Dunning-Krugar effect in real time.
But if good people spoke up more often…