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Random thought:
I think basically nobody agrees with my political perspectives because:

1. The left has a very narrow orthodoxy, and if you don't agree with it 100% then they claim to think you're a not-see. To anyone outside of the leftist bubble, this is self-evidently garbage.

2. The right has a tenancy to over-simplify problems and is attracted to "big hammer" solutions - like as if everything will be utopia if we just send the blacks back to Africa, take away women's vote, evict the jews, etc. The problem with these "simple" ideas is that if things were so simple, somewhere at some point in history, some country would have accidentally stumbled on them, thrived, and made them a universal standard.

If you approach things from a first principles perspective based on the assumption that governance is a hard problem and the best countries to live in today are already solving it as best we know how - conclusions and proposals end up being a lot different from anything that is typically discussed in the political arena.

@cjd
My thing with the U.S.' D's and R's is if you subscribe to one, you're made to feel you have to subscribe to all their stances on all issues... as opposed to going issue by issue, and deciding things on individual issue basis.

It's fully baked into the system that mostly no clever and unique solutions are pitched. It started with the CNN Crossfire format. Why don't we have a program called Common Ground... people hashing out solutions? Because we're meant to fight on simplistic levels.