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Summary of the article: Republicans bad, Democrats good. It's a shame that partisanship makes it impossible to notice certain issues. The article completely ig

• spiritplumber 5y ago
  You are helping how?
  • pdonis 5y ago
    By making it clear that the problem is not that one side has the "right" beliefs and the other side has the "wrong" beliefs, and that the way to make progress is to convince the people with the "wrong" beliefs to fix their beliefs. Ironically, the title page of the article (by contrast with the actual article) gets this right: it says the point of democracy is that it "enables people with different beliefs and ideas to coexist". You don't do that by one set of people trying to forcibly get another set of people to change their beliefs, by shaming them or canceling them or using the legal system against them. You do that by accepting the fact that people are going to have different beliefs, and that if you can't justify a particular policy on the basis of beliefs that everybody (or at least enough of a majority of both sides) shares, that policy should not be enacted by a democratic government. The biggest problem we have with democracy today is that whichever party is in power thinks that they thereby have a mandate to shove their beliefs down everyone else's throats. The way to fix it is to stop doing that. This article does not help.