#274 — The Future of American Democracy
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Politics and Identity
Our system does make it really difficult, almost impossibly difficult, to create a third party. Our best bet is to try and create pro democracy wings or movements inside the existing parties. The division between left and right has become pretty meaningless. What politics are really organized around now, are people's sense of identities. And once politics are about identity and culture rather than concrete, you know, policies and plans, that we can argue about or agree to disagree about, politics becomes more difficult.
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