What’s Not To Understand?

This is not news: conservatives and liberals prioritize different values; they have different perspectives on the important issues of the day; their foundational principles are different; and as has often been noted — Jonathan Haidt among the more influential voices — their notions of not only how society should function but how a good society should be defined are different.

Our current polarizing conflicts, contentious as they are (and unlikely to produce a “winner” by any rational measure), are instigated and encouraged by a regular pattern of misinformation and…