You Are Not So Smart

256 - The Persuaders - Anand Giridharadas

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Apr 2, 2023
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INSIGHT

Democracy Requires Changing Minds

  • Democracy depends on the capacity to change minds through constant argument and discourse.
  • Believing minds can't change leads to declines in democracy and opens the door for authoritarianism.
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Democracy Is Unusual and Fragile

  • Democracy is an unusual and fragile system requiring constant debate among all members.
  • Historically, societies handed decisions to solo rulers, making democracy a radical invention.
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Right Harnesses Feelings Better

  • The right understands and channels citizens' big feelings caused by social and economic changes.
  • Left fails if it ignores these feelings and speaks only in abstract policy language.
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