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#274 — The Future of American Democracy

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Identity Politics

I think the problem with identity politics is that it interacts with the variable of partisanship unhelpfully, because it is a tribal sort of politics. And if you're going to be tribal, then the extreme voices win, and you're certainly not rewarded for seeing the other tribes point more or less ever. So being in the centre amounts to acknowledging what your side got wrong,. You knwor what yu know what just to the left of youtat, to use the old mapping got wrong. I'll gout. Let's do one more question and then will close out. Is it possible that the world has outgrown democracy as a political system? We need a new system

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