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by patrickburke 3605 days ago
Nearly all political persuasion is framed as a moral argument and dissenters are publicly shamed. Eg. You are a bad person if you drive a SUV. This is not just a property of the left
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The problem is the same.

The proposed solution in the article is very different.

https://www.amazon.com/Solidarity-Struggle-Succeed-Showing-F...

> Nearly all political persuasion is framed as a moral argument

That's because most political disagreement is disagreement on moral first principles (it often includes disagreement on facts, but that's rarely the root of the divide.)

Politicians are terrible and soulless... All of them.