[Reedx]

Would love to see that as well. Unfortunately outrage generates a lot more clicks and social media engagement.

And politics are increasingly becoming intertwined with identity, which makes it even less cogent.

From Paul Graham's essay about this:

Politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions.

...I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity. By definition they're partisan.

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html