The central premise underlying the vast majority of analyses of current politics is wrong. Because the premise is wrong most diagnoses are wrong. Because most diagnoses are wrong most prescriptions are wrong.
Here is that premise:
Here is that premise:
Here is another depiction of the incorrect premise, using moral foundations:
And here, based on data from every continent, is a depiction of the correct premise. Every leftist foundation is also a conservative foundation, but half of the conservative foundations are external, foreign, to leftism.
Here is another depiction of the same thing:
Here is a thought experiment that accurately describes the partisan divide, in which the left is represented by the 2D character and the right is represented by the 3D character.
The debate about social issues between right and left is like a debate about rainbows between the fully sighted and the colorblind, in which...
The fully sighted right thinks the colorblind left is naive for not seeing all the colors, and the colorblind left thinks the fully sighted right is batshit crazy for seeing colors that obviously are not there.
This explains, for example, this, from The Righteous Mind, by Jon Haidt:
It also explains this:
