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The_Doctor
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« on: July 12, 2017, 03:07:12 PM »

There are a number of solutions accompanying a realignment. Obviously I keep typing about this and have done some research.

Read this article about the disappearance of 'purple America." People are now siloed in ideological bubbles with their own priors. This was not the case back in prior eras and only has been observed in one other major era - the Civil War era. Now, after the Civil war, intense polarization followed because of a series of close elections and a geographic dominion over separate regions by different parties (the South was dominated by Democrats; the Northeast and Midwest by Republicans).

So, one solution is to mix up the ideological bubbles. I'm not sure how we do that though but it would be helpful if everyone was dispersed in such a way that there were no 80-100% GOP or DNC regions. But that would require a massive resorting of the coalitions.

On Atlas, Republicans and Democrats (and #NeverTrumpers) should be willing to criticize their own side about a 3:1 ratio - e.g, every 3 partisan comments should be followed by a honest assessment of their own side. Hillary for example lost the election on her own but Trump really botched a lot of things along the way and the Never Trumpers paved the way for Trump in the first place.

Simply put, the first step is to acknowledge your side is sometimes wrong and do it consistently. This has the added benefit of strengthening your case by weeding out poor facts that do not help your ideological cause.
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