This is right & also explains the difficulty liberalism faces in these political battles since the characteristic liberal move (except in a few cases) is to try to sideline values/ideology & focus on facts/process. (Big exception is civil rights, where liberalism is more robust)https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1493591510495150080 …
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I think that may be true at the high level of ideology. But at the low level of consumer choice I think people's media consumption is so siloed and targeted at them everyone thinks their narrow niche should be the national conversation because it's all they see.
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I think the ultimate consumer choice, these individual, solitary, boutique realities we increasingly inhabit, is maybe the highest level of all, superceding ideology completely, rendering it meaningless.
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Call me an optimist but there are still many problems that could be *at least partly* resolved by an appeal to facts. The problem is not that facts don't help solve the problem in these situations, it is that many have been told, usually indirectly, that these are value problems.
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In other words, bad faith actors have moved these issues away from the factual realm where they *mostly* belong and into a values/ideology/tribal/feelings realm. Climate change, gun violence, immigration, even tax cuts all fit here.
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I can't agree at least fully, and I don't count myself as a liberal as much as a republican (which solves some of this problem). But even the minimal liberal consensus has a price of admission: not barring full admission of others, a value expressed procedurally as civil rights.
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