I think there are two major ways liberals and conservatives think. Liberals tend to come up with solutions to problems they see over and over again. Conservativ

I think there are two major ways liberals and conservatives think. Liberals tend to come up with solutions to problems they see over and over again. Conservatives are more like, hey look at Joe, he needs some help, can someone get him food and see why he's doing so poorly. It's odd, but when you think about systems vs single solutions, liberals like to think of the "systemic solution" so it doesn't happen again. A Factory explodes? Regulation is the answer. A baby is switched at birth? We need much more complicated computer systems to track babies. etc... Conservatives are more like, oh shit, that WONT happen again, we promise. And likely it doesn't or rarely does. I'm not really arguing which of these routes is better here, but I see more and more that these opposite ways of thinking is the crux of our anti-trusting of the other side. I think the only way they will is if we, as a people, try to sit in each other's shoes more. What's funny as an interesting parable, I see the liberal route of making rules (to save lives, stop mis-matched babies) as procedural/imperative programming. The conservative route of simply fixing the problems that went wrong as a social fix as a machine learning.