Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them.
I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.
Just like in Lincoln's Cooper Union speech, "what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right." Some values are irreconcilable.
