This is a great article. Unfortunately it will fall upon deaf ears. Most of the people in this country that are so polarized at this juncture will not listen to anything outside their normal state of belief. There's no self responsibility out there, no owning up to a mistake, and most importantly, no seeking of wisdom outside what we already believe.
One of the things that I pride myself on is that I am, or rather was, open to viewpoints not my own in the past. I know many on the left who I have argued with repeatedly here will laugh at this. But I used to be on that side until I started looking into it more and more. I was a supporter of Obama once upon a time. I voted for him. You've all heard me state this over and over again, but it bears repeating. It wasn't until I begin to really look into the fiscal sustainability of the country when one thing led to another, and another, and I started realizing that where I was going was more and more libertarian. But it took the sacrifice of my ego in order to do it. Without giving up ego, you will never open yourself up to the possibility you could be wrong.
People are like that. It's always someone else who is wrong - always someone else out of their mind. I used to want to see someone's view (unless I had heard it before) before resolving my self to oppose it. That's how I became socially liberal in the first place, and it wasn't all that long ago.
