It is only in the wake of the 2008 Obama sweep that the radical conservative Tea Party movement has split from the previously unified conservative movement. The progressive world has not caught up. And what is worse is a set of myths believed by liberals and progressives. These myths come from a good source, but they end up hurting us badly. The myths began with the Enlightenment, and the first one goes like this: The truth will set us free. If we just tell people the facts, since people are basically rational beings, they’ll all reach the right conclusions. But we know from cognitive science
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