People who hold accurate views on crucial political questions that have empirically verifiable answers overwhelmingly vote for Democrats:

The Trump campaign’s central messages were

(1) The Biden-Harris administration had crashed the economy, which is why inflation is out of control, and nobody can afford anything any more.

(2) Violent crime is out of control, because Marxist Liberals won’t let the cops do their jobs any more

(3) We are being invaded by millions of criminals from south of the border, because Marxist Liberals have an Open Border policy.

(4) Real Americans can’t get jobs any more because of (3). So “they” are taking your jobs as well as eating your pets.

All of this is objectively, demonstrably, unambiguously false. It’s not in the epistemological gray zone of culture war issues that don’t have empirically verifiable answers. It’s just round earth v. flat earth stuff.

I don’t have some clever program for what to do about this, but the fact that we live in a post-truth society seems like a big problem.

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"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back - in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you."
 - Frederick Buechner
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"Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control."
 - Kathleen Norris
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"Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe; the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely think about this sort of natural, basic self-centeredness because it's so socially repulsive. But it's pretty much the same for all of us. It is our default setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. Think about it: there is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is there in front of YOU or behind YOU, to the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor. And so on. Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real."
 - David Foster Wallace
Kenyon Commencement Speech 2005