of course it would be great if suddenly everyone agreed with Your Brilliant Policy Proposal, and all counterarguments and opposing parties were suddenly swept away or hand-waved-solved! that's a neat dream! but it's not reality

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like, I think it can be actively damaging to your analysis and political activity to persistently Just Wish Things Weren't This Way. (i) that's not how reality works, all choices and options are informed by the previous conditions (ii) you fixate on solutions that are on the other side of power

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I don't talk about persuasion or teaching everyone to be more discerning because I'm squeamish about "tougher" tactics. It's because I try to take conditions seriously, and I know how much crap is pushed through by bad-faith actors, all over the board. Also: we don't have access to magic wands.

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It’s easy to understand how I would feel because I think the New York Times should pretend to be non partisan while being totally in the tank for Democrats.

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the primary argument for "striving for better religion" over "abolishing religion" is that, it seems that human minds are generally incapable of leaving the viewpoint in a significant manner. Try to make it a vacuum and you can end up with worse.

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