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To: Dale Baker who wrote (186348)	3/31/2012 12:47:52 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) of 542889

>>Why Won’t They Listen? By WILLIAM SALETAN THE RIGHTEOUS MIND Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion By Jonathan Haidt<< Wow. That's a great review. Great in the way it explains, examines, and questions the ideas the book presents, I mean. It makes me want to read the book, and to recommend it to others, as a place to begin a broader dialogue. I have some quibbles with some of Haidt's ideas. For example, the idea that open primaries would allow Democrats to help get more moderate Republican candidates nominated and vice versa. In practice, open primaries seem to be used mainly as a tool for people to sabotage the nominating process by voting for the opposition candidate least likely to win in the general election. I question, too, the more basic premise that the fact that people vote for certain policies because it's in their nature to do so validates the policies somehow. Still, I think I'm going to have to get that book and devote some time to reading and thinking about it.

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