RE: Atheist, i will leave my religion to mysif you let transsexuals leave their ideology
June 8, 2025 at 9:01 am
(June 8, 2025 at 7:47 am)Belacqua Wrote:(June 8, 2025 at 7:40 am)Alan V Wrote: That only works when people are good-faith actors. When groups of people repeatedly lie about their opposition, you can't compromise with them. They are just trying to move the Overton Window in their favor by cheating. One example is climate change denial based on conspiracy theories.
In other words, if you are tolerant of the intolerant, you encourage intolerance.
Political polarization isn't an easy situation to address fairly, except by remaining honest.
Part of the extreme polarization is the inability to accept that people who disagree with us may in fact be honest.
So Donald Trump's 30,000 lies were honest? He has been undermining the very foundations of democracy by repeatedly attacking the facts.