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The Moral Standards of Low Riding Politics
At the top of the ladder, you're not going to think that way, right? You're going to stay true to your principles no matter who's the subject. But as you go down this ladder, you find that they're not really in the business of truth and aren't good at debating or arguing. So instead of persuasion, which they're not very good at, they'll use coercion. And so I call it low rung politics versus high rung politics. It spans the horizontal spectrum from radical leftists all the way to hardline conservatives. The bottom is like these simple narratives of good versus evil. Why are a bunch of grownups down there? What are we doing?