Quote:
I have no time for someone who doesn't have the correct belief about [abortion/god/homosexuality/race/taxes/the military/guns]" is pretty much how U.S. politics have become dysfunctional.
The unexamined assumption is that each of those complex subjects can be broken down to a binary right/wrong belief, and those on the wrong side of that binary choice are irredeemably bad people not worth engaging with. This ideological litmus test characterizes both the ideological right and the ideological left. People who have a binary outlook on life seem to have tremendous difficulty understanding that not everyone shares their limitation. If we all saw the world in binary terms, democracy wouldn't even work. Only a totalitarian society can function without nuance, tolerance, and compromise.
|
That is kinda what this message board has become. Take a look at this whole thread as well as the US mass shooting one. There are no exchanges of ideas only the continued re hashing of the same talking points and ideology. The majority of the opposing viewpoints and posters have already been silenced or shouted down.