The Importance of Politics in Our Lives

Around 1960 five percent of people cared about their son or daughter marrying outside of a political party so 95 percent of the American public didn't care if you. Today one third out of democrats object to their child marrying another party and one half of republicans object to their children marrying out of another party, which backs up your claim that our sense of identity is much more tied into tribal totems than problem-solving issues. We're just to begin with the premise that maybe the other side is not an evil existential threat or that there are more than two sides he says.