Politics remains the mindkiller no matter how intelligent you are. In particular an effort of your sort is appealing to the prefrontal cortex. However politic

Politics remains the mindkiller no matter how intelligent you are. In particular an effort of your sort is appealing to the prefrontal cortex. However politics is not higher math. It lives in the lizard brain. It's strongly connected to our survival instincts which is why it is both dangerous and important i.e. all this exists for a reason. I don't know if you could interfere with that without resorting to brainwashing. Remember Douglas Adams's Total Perspective Vortex? The Net is speeding up people's 'transitions'. It used to be the case that a person gradually changed their political perspective, but now with the Net this has gone into overdrive. It is now common to meet people who have genuinely undergone several political perspective changes. It is slow but real. I suggest somehow speeding that process up yet further would do a lot of good. I don't think you can 'teach' people, but you can get them to argue with each other, and then get them to examine how their thinking is evolving over time. Looking at your past comments/posts on the Net gives you some humility, many of us would be strangers to our younger selves now. Appealing to self interest (you used to think X too) could improve empathy. It would at least result in people appreciating complexity and prevent them writing each other off altogether.