Another reason our politics are deadlocked is that we now love our ideologies less than we hate the enemy's. We are increasingly defining ourselves by what we are against rather than what we are for, because we’d rather deride our opponents' plans than try developing our own.
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Additionally, Left and Right value attacking each other over even having disagreements among one another. They will attack the insanity of the "other side" and defend the insanity of their own side. The net result is a lot of insanity and depressed and apathetic center
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I'm thinking Taleb's got it right, the real divide is localisim and globalism.
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Well, yeah, if you have to reduce it to a dichotomy
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I really think it’s wrong and unnecessary to try to argue against “the left” or “the right”. It can only amount to “boo the outgroup”. Much better to argue specific points with specific individuals who disagree.
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I blame the internet and social media. Conclusions are reached far too early, and then it's so easy to cherry pick sources to reinforce our initial conclusion. Politicians can no longer fight on camera and then compromise in private. They are now constantly campaigning.
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For me the problem is that we rarely align issue by issue but by left /right. Issues frequently don't divide solely and neatly left or right though when it comes to the best options.
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I feel like I’m drowning in simplistic generalizations...
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I don't think you can honestly say that about the Left. Not over the last 10 years or so. they have been condensing and purging.
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