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What is rational and even moral for us to do individually becomes destructive when done collectively.
A core argument of this book is that everyone engaged in American politics is engaged in identity politics.
The more sorted we are in our differences, the more different we grow in our preferences.
Open isn’t better than closed. Conscientious is a trait, not a compliment. Evolutionarily, the power is in the mix of outlooks, not in any one outlook—that’s why this psychological diversity has survived.
When we participate in politics to solve a problem, we’re participating transactionally. But when we participate in politics to express who we are, that’s a signal that politics has become an identity. And that’s when our relationship to politics, and to each other, changes.
