Boston Globe – Why Republicans and Democrats will never agree: Politics isn’t a rational conversation, says psychologist Jonathan Haidt. It’s time we faced what’s really going on.
By Joshua Rothman | MARCH 11, 2012
“…In his new book, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion,” Haidt (pronounced “height”) argues that we’re mistaken about what’s really going on when we disagree about politics. We like to think that our opinions are shaped by reason and information. But the truth, Haidt says, is that many of our positions are intuitive and irrational at their core–driven by passions that we didn’t choose, don’t understand, and can’t articulate. On some issues, coming to agreement isn’t really possible, and never has been; instead of arguing, Americans ought to look for ways to live with their differences….”
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