Excellent advise in the abstract -- but how is a 45 year old person who has not yet learned to understand or respect other points of view supposed to learn that skill or attitude, in 4 or 8 years, and convince people she has genuinely done so? (And, perhaps, do so without alienating her own base.)
It is indeed a key understanding, all too rare on both left and right but not, I think, easily chosen or acquired. One needs the right experiences, perhaps, or at least the right reading, or the right temperament, to even see this as desirable.
You evidently understood nothing of what I said. Or else you ignored it. I said that Palin had no experience of the way most people who live in big cities have thought and felt for decades. I said, that is, that she had a lack of experience. You said that she was incapable of understanding. That is, you said she was stupid with the particular kind of stupidity known as narrow-mindedness. Now I would never have written this post if I had thought so. You are welcome to your opinions so long as you do not try to read yours in mine.
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It is indeed a key understanding, all too rare on both left and right but not, I think, easily chosen or acquired. One needs the right experiences, perhaps, or at least the right reading, or the right temperament, to even see this as desirable.
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