The Righteous Mind and the Power of Ideas

I don't think that ideas necessarily become popular as a function of how true or or. People come to their political conclusions for evolutionary reasons, meaning I want it the bandwagon effect. Low status people have an enormous incentive to not rock the boat because they're not in a position to kind of have radical ideas. Politics is always moved by an informed ideological, usually radicalized minority and this country was founded by a bunch of very small percentage of people who didn't even bother asking the masses what they thought about it.