[garyrob]

I was a bit hyperbolic in my first comment above. But think about how receptive today's Republicans are to things Kamala Harris says, and how receptive today's Democrats are to things Donald Trump says. That's based on each group ingesting a lifetime of patterns that buttress their basic attitudes. Little of it is based on logic.

Therefore, a good rule of thumb, in my view, is to incorporate a combination of the Golden Rule plus actively NOT assuming that members of other groups are so different that you shouldn't apply the Golden Rule to them. I think this is essential because our thinking about these things is too much based on learned patterns to be trustable. Bad things can be done in the name of such thought.