First, this is conservative propaganda masquerading as intellectual analysis, and I'm surprised it's made it this far on HN. Where this prescription falls shor

First, this is conservative propaganda masquerading as intellectual analysis, and I'm surprised it's made it this far on HN. Where this prescription falls short of the cure: the most extreme are also the most vocal, and are the ones creating change. Regardless of which side we're on, we're letting them speak for us and pull as hard as they can in the direction we want the needle to move. As a moderate liberal, if someone I know says they're allowing their child to choose their gender or that they want to shut down police departments, I try to keep an open mind, but don't really feel the same way they do. I imagine moderate conservatives probably grin and bear a lot of racism, misogyny, and toxic nationalism by the same token.