You are viewing a single comment's thread from:

RE: 4 Steps to Having a Proper Political Discussion

in #politics8 years ago

I like it, a very good set of rules. I had never heard that bit about the three languages before, I think I will look more into that, it's very interesting.

In my experience a lot of words are spent fruitlessly in political discussion because the actors in the conversation don't really have a good idea of exactly what it is they are disagreeing on. Most sane, reasonable, average people want more or less the same thing. They want to be fed and housed. They want to have a reasonable shot at a comfortable lifestyle. They don't want to fall victim to crime or violence. They value human life, they care about their community, so on and so forth. The disagreement is usually over the best way to achieve those goals, or what the cause of the inability to realize those goals is.