Looking for a succinct primer for those politically disengaged folks who are tuning out because "both sides have gotten so mean". Obviously the contradictions are heightening but how do you ease in a materialist perspective when someone is already so exhausted by "bias"
I would advise them to re-read What's the Matter with Kansas? IDK too much about Thomas Frank but I knew he went on Chapo once and he seems to be a good gateway into genuine leftism.
Other than that, remind them that conservatives have always been this way, it's all part of being ontologically evil :bateman-ontological:.