Tag: politic science

  • Democracy and the Good Life Part 4: Ideology and Polarization

    Democracy and the Good Life Part 4: Ideology and Polarization

    Democratic government is a marketplace with the same disincentives with respect to your beliefs as economic markets have to your desires. Worse, and as an inevitable outcome of that fact, the ideology industry has become something more than a simple mechanism for harvesting votes. The ideology industry has succeeded in creating massive belief change; we…