Tag: polarization
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Groups Aim to Lure Conservatives Out of the Closet on Climate Change
Forbes: Groups Aim to Lure Conservatives Out of the Closet on Climate Change This is an excellent article! Climate change and the left-wing narrative of "capitalism-is-exploitation" have been closely intertwined. Scientists tend to lean left-wing already, but when Al Gore became the official face of climate change, that relationship between science and ideology became cemented.…
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How can we reduce polarization and confirmation bias?
We live in an increasingly polarized society. How do we reverse this trend? My reflection on this topic keeps taking me back to the basic question raised in the sociology of knowledge: How do we know what we think we know? During college in the late 1970s, I read Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman’s classic…
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Why the Big Sort?
Almost five years ago, I did a series of posts on Bill Bishop's book The Big Sort. (Series here) Bishop explains that for at least thirty years, we have been sorting ourselves into enclaves of polarized groups, even physically locating ourselves with others who think and live like us. But the big question is why?…
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How Republicans And Democrats Ended Up Living Apart
NPR: How Republicans And Democrats Ended Up Living Apart … It remains to be found out how many people, if you asked them, would say that they had moved or wanted to move because of politics. Liberals threaten to every four years if the Republican presidential candidate wins, but few actually make good on it.…
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Saturday Links
Have a wonderful Easter weekend! 1. Rewriting the story of polarized debate: He got Tea Party and Occupy to talk Nabil Laoudji's Mantle Project puts citizens on stage to tell stories of the experiences that led them to their positions on tough issues. That's how he got members of the Tea Party and Occupy movement…
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The Emotional Psychology of a Two-Party System
The Atlantic: The Emotional Psychology of a Two-Party System Defense mechanisms against emotional ambivalence incline us to fully embrace one side and fully reject the other — which makes compromise nearly impossible. … Such rhetoric reflects a black-and-white, us-versus-them approach that views each debate over taxation, social policy and the role of government not as…
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Politicized Christians, Symbolic Hostility, and an Israeli Web-Designer
Many conservative Christians have embraced government as a tool for achieving their moral vision for society, a mindset that dates back to at least the 1970s. Many people are now questioning the wisdom of this alliance. Stephen Prothero recently wrote, "Americans have historically opted to split the difference between living in a nation in which…
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Being Uncharitable to Those Who Disagree
Arnold Kling is a libertarian economist who blogs at askblog. His tagline for his blog is "taking the most charitable view of those who disagree." In a recent post, Being Uncharitable to Those Who Disagree, he began with: In his recent book, Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jason Brennan writes, American politics has two…