Charlie Sykes: It's time to put truth before political tribe

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snip...  “Once people join a political team,” he writes in The Righteous Mind, “they get ensnared in its moral matrix. They see confirmation of their grand narrative everywhere, and it’s difficult—perhaps impossible—to convince them that they are wrong if you argue with them from outside the matrix.” In this world, writes Don Kinder, a political scientist, political opinions become “badges of social membership.”

In other words, many voters use information not to discover what is true, but rather to reinforce their relationship to their political tribe. Studies have shown that hyperpartisans actually get a hit of dopamine when they hear information that supports their positions or their candidates. This suggests, writes Mr. Haidt, that “extreme partisanship may be literally addictive.”

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https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/06/05/charlie-sykes-its-time-put-truth-political-tribe?utm_source=Newsletters

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