Geoffrey MillerVerified account

If you're a reliable judge of which is which, this sounds good. And, if not, then as long as your white-hotness (or starry-eyedness) still leaves room for reasonable dialogue about the issues.

but is it not even better to then cool down and open a space in the center for dialogue towards understanding?

But if any one thing a person thinks is a good idea is strongly predictive of beliefs about other good ideas, I'd be wary of the causal order of that evaluation.

Incredible and amazing, but there we are.

If starry-eyed progressivism entails hyping untested ideas in a way that gets masses of people excited for it, I will assert that this negates itself as being a bad idea. Unintended consequences are best contained to a small group of victims.