{"id":1117,"date":"2023-11-30T07:21:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T07:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/11\/30\/political-polarization-the-radical-cure\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T07:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T07:21:05","slug":"political-polarization-the-radical-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/11\/30\/political-polarization-the-radical-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Polarization: the Radical Cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Political polarization is deep and wide. We are &#39;siloed&#39; into our positions and things threaten to go &#39;thermonuclear.&#39;&#0160; The usual cures cannot be dismissed out of hand, but are mostly blather served up by squishy, <em>bien-pensant<\/em> &#39;liberals&#39; for their own insipid and clueless ilk. No doubt we should listen to others respectfully, but how many of our political opponents are worth listening to or are worthy of respect? No doubt we should seek common ground. But is they any left to be found? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Go ahead, take a civility pledge, but civility is only for the civil, and how many of our political enemies are civil? Civility is like toleration: it is a good thing but it has limits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">And so it falls to me to point out a cure for polarization that is never mentioned: eliminate one of the poles. The Hamas-Jew polarization, for example, is solved by eliminating Hamas. For here there is and can be no common ground, no mutual respect, no &#39;conversation&#39; or &#39;negotiations.&#39; Palliation is out of the question; amputation is the answer. Examples are easily multiplied. The side that is in the right should destroy the side that isn&#39;t.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You say that war is never the answer? It depends on the question. Sometimes you have to give war a chance.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political polarization is deep and wide. We are &#39;siloed&#39; into our positions and things threaten to go &#39;thermonuclear.&#39;&#0160; The usual cures cannot be dismissed out of hand, but are mostly blather served up by squishy, bien-pensant &#39;liberals&#39; for their own insipid and clueless ilk. No doubt we should listen to others respectfully, but how many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/11\/30\/political-polarization-the-radical-cure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political Polarization: the Radical Cure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,119,363,295,375,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disagreement","category-islamism","category-jewish-question","category-pathocracy-and-totalitarianism","category-terrorism","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}