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Winning Position: Why do people subscribe to polarized thinking?
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Why do people subscribe to polarized thinking?
Why do people subscribe to polarized, partisan thinking when they know that neither party in the US is 100% right all the time, nor do they stick to a specific ethos?
Why do people believe what pundits tell them when they know that they don't tell the objective truth?
Why do people choose their news based on poltical bias when they know that bias does not get you closer to the truth, and overt bias is an indication of poor, yellow journalism?
These things bother me. The people do these things are allowing a political party to think for them rather than do their own research. It is as if they are deliberately letting themselves believe things knowing they are untrue.
We should be concerned with what works, what has been tried before and failed, along with lessons from history and what is pragmatic. If something works, or fixes a problem, we should consider it. Polarized thinking does not consider what would work.
Can anyone provide any insight to this?
Please do not turn this into a name-calling match.
Winning Position: You say you'll change the Constitution well you know...
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You say you'll change the Constitution well you know...
If you could amend, omit, or alter in any way the US Constitution, what would it be? Which article, or already existing amend meant and why? Or do you think the document is 100% perfect in its original or present form.
Guidlines: let's keep this civil, and fact-based. This is not an opportunity for party-line name-calling or dog whistle words. Therefore, if you want to make (for example) an amendment, please provide some kind of citation, and a fact-based reason for that. If you can use a historical primary source (like a Federalist Paper), or a statistic, or some kind of reason, it would be even better!
Winning Position: Did the Soviet Union give the US a reason to be great?
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Did the Soviet Union give the US a reason to be great?
During the Cold War, the US had the largest, most prosperous middle class. The funded our space program and reached for the stars. The US had a well-funded public education system that was the best in the world. The US made leaps and bounds in science. Wages in the US were higher, and prices were lower (after adjusting for inflation). The US had a much better wealth distrubution, and Americans felt as though they were part of a nation.
Do you think it was because the USSR and its Soviet System (which was called "communism" in name only) gave the US and the powerful in the west (including the business community) something to compete with so the western system looked better?
Thoughts please?
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