Should all politicians be banned from Twitter?

> all political sides mainly use Twitter to dumb down discourse, virtue signal and blast out propaganda.

That's what most people appear to use it for. Stop using twitter and join a social network or news source or whatever you want that meets your needs. Or form a closed twitter group that doesn't include politicians.

I think twitter in particular has destroyed modern discourse, but we're not going to ban our way out of this.

Like with proposals to regulate "journalists", what exactly constitutes a politician? For example, I've run for public office before (city council) and I'm involved in a few politically active organizations. Am I a politician? If I am, was it still political advocacy when I talked about the idiotic redudant school built in my ward, as I was not campaigning then? (Just a thought experiment. In practice, Twitter should of course be scourged from the planet.)

> all political sides mainly use Twitter to dumb down discourse

It's true that politicians and their followers have dumbed down discourse (and to a stunning degree) but ultimately it's the consumer of that discourse who needs to change and Twitter is not standing in the way of that.

I don't "tweet" or follow Twitter much at all but I think it's fair to say that on any given day there is a lot of very useful, helpful, and positive banter going on there.