People approach things at different levels of abstraction and argue with people at a different level. You saw this all the time in the pandemic. At one level

People approach things at different levels of abstraction and argue with people at a different level. You saw this all the time in the pandemic. At one level of abstraction it is about the physics and biology of body fluids. At another level it is about reducing some statistics in a population. And at another level it is about economics. One person is thinking about snot dynamics and another about the economy. That's crazy! All these things have models and data. And when you mix it together you get politics. The underlying data gets lost in that mix of things that would be a false dichotomy in an ideal world. We all have to become more nuanced in our understanding of the world but can't keep up. Instead we battle it out with increasingly strained heuristics.