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Take it as the ultimate enigma nut to crack – and cracking it is important because they (Trumpian faith-shackled flock) want to basically take everyone down to a Lord Of The Flies reality of chaos and he who has the gold makes all the rules, while dictating what reality we are supposed to bow down to.

This is exactly the opposite of the life work of Jonathan Haidt. It also goes against my intuition. I find it hard to believe that people get up at 5am, milk their cows, wade in manure all day, then before bed, plot to destroy the country. The ability of the rich and powerful to get followers has a long history, it sort of IS history. Trying to understand where our innate feelings end and our ability to reason begins is a far more important project to me than trying to change a mind that I don’t understand. It’s even more critical when you stop and realize that the rational/reasoning project has not produced the utopia it was supposed to. It freed us from royal families, but it gave us consumerism and runaway capitalism. When you look at it that way, the guy in the factory worried about his job being taken is looking at you CC as the one who wants to destroy America.