Press kit
We Actually Can All Get Along is a free, independently published book that reads media economics, platform design, and algorithmic amplification as one system, and traces what that system does to polarization and public trust.
Long description
We Actually Can All Get Along examines why two people can follow the same event and come away with incompatible accounts of it. Rather than assigning blame, the book works through the machinery underneath, covering how media revenue models shape editorial choices, how ranking systems decide what reaches whom, and how the competition for attention sets the incentives that follow.
The 2026 edition runs 26 chapters across two parts. Part one describes the system as it developed, from the openly partisan press of the early republic through broadcast regulation, cable, consolidation, and platform scale. Part two turns to principles a reader can apply without being told what to conclude.
Every headline statistic in the manuscript is published on the site with its primary source, field dates, and the chapter where it appears. The book stays descriptive throughout. It takes no policy position and no political side, and it discloses that AI tools were used in research organization, writing, and site development, with all claims and sources reviewed for accuracy.
Key facts
- Title
- We Actually Can All Get Along
- Author
- RJ WACAGA
- Edition
- v2026.4
- Length
- 26 chapters across two parts
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, and Word, all free
- Price
- Free, no payment and no account required
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, free to quote with attribution
- Site
- wecangetalong.com
- Press contact
- press@wecangetalong.com
Quotes from the manuscript
Disagreement has not disappeared. It has become riskier.
Americans today do not merely hold different opinions. They increasingly operate from different informational baselines.
This was not considered corruption. It was the system.
It required incentives that rewarded intensity more reliably than restraint.
The result was not only polarization. It was fragmentation of reality.
Trust becomes relational rather than institutional.
Press release
For immediate release
Free book traces polarization to media economics and platform design, with every statistic published and sourced
We Actually Can All Get Along, a free book on media systems and public trust, is available in its 2026 edition at wecangetalong.com. The book reads media economics, platform design, and the competition for attention as a single system, then examines what that system measurably does to polarization and trust.
The 2026 edition adds tracked data series drawn from Pew Research Center, Gallup, and the Census Bureau, each published on the site alongside the chart that uses it. Readers can see the underlying figures, the field dates, and the primary source link for every number, rather than taking a summary on faith.
The book is descriptive rather than prescriptive. It does not argue for a policy, endorse a party, or tell a reader what to conclude. Its working claim is that once the incentives are visible, people can decide for themselves what to do about them.
The full manuscript is available as PDF, EPUB, and Word at no cost and without an account. It is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, so journalists and researchers may quote it with attribution. AI tools were used in research organization, writing, and site development, and that use is disclosed on the site.
Review copies, interview requests, and questions about sourcing can go to press@wecangetalong.com.
We Actually Can All Get Along is an independent, self-published project by RJ WACAGA. It carries no institutional funding, no advertising relationship with any outlet named in the text, and no political affiliation. Every headline statistic is published with its primary source at wecangetalong.com/facts.
Contact
press@wecangetalong.com
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