I wish every mainstream “progressive” journalist would read your post. It has been said that contempt poisons every marriage. I would go further and assert that it poisons every human relationship. The Left and MSM are just overflowing with contempt, inadvertently (I hope!) helping Trump get into the White House again. If the Progressive Far Left did not exist, MAGA would have to invent it to provide the necessary bogeyman. Your writing is the antidote to this vicious circle that will eventually destroy constitutional government in the US.
This got me thinking about my own approach to debunking wrong things leftists believe because they think they’re operating from facts. Haidt’s Righteous mind was very helpful for me in this as well, made me a little less angry. I like your modeled approach here in talking to the voter. I’m going to try it.
Glad you found some helpful advice from Erica's piece! Also, Haidt is one of my favorite writers and thinkers. That book, as well as Coddling of the American Mind, were very formative for me.
Definitely a better way to talk to other people who mainly all want the very same things anyway ! Problem is so many newsletters are for one direction or the other & foment fury at the opposition ! So it's hard to remember that the other people are just real people trying to get things right !
I wish every mainstream “progressive” journalist would read your post. It has been said that contempt poisons every marriage. I would go further and assert that it poisons every human relationship. The Left and MSM are just overflowing with contempt, inadvertently (I hope!) helping Trump get into the White House again. If the Progressive Far Left did not exist, MAGA would have to invent it to provide the necessary bogeyman. Your writing is the antidote to this vicious circle that will eventually destroy constitutional government in the US.
This got me thinking about my own approach to debunking wrong things leftists believe because they think they’re operating from facts. Haidt’s Righteous mind was very helpful for me in this as well, made me a little less angry. I like your modeled approach here in talking to the voter. I’m going to try it.
Glad you found some helpful advice from Erica's piece! Also, Haidt is one of my favorite writers and thinkers. That book, as well as Coddling of the American Mind, were very formative for me.
Definitely a better way to talk to other people who mainly all want the very same things anyway ! Problem is so many newsletters are for one direction or the other & foment fury at the opposition ! So it's hard to remember that the other people are just real people trying to get things right !