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"
If you're at the stage where you can see that the right hates humanity, but can't bring yourself to utterly reject everything they stand for, what does that say about your own love for humanity? This step is scary because it means confronting the fact that your own party stands for a lot of the same hateful things, and the only real option is to also reject them and their platform of compromise and appeasement.
Part of my break with liberalism was realizing I wasn't polarized enough lol