That's what I'm reading on Twitter this morning about people who voted Tory in the UK elections last night.
Zero effort to understand the other side.
The other side must be motivated by sheer malice.
I have to say, too, that I am always impressed by people who think the homeless problem is just one more program away from being solved, and who recommend approaches to that and other issues that they don't seem to realize have been tried in vain for 50 years already.
Thus Bernie Sanders says he could put an end to homelessless and a variety of other social ills with just the $100 billion he raises from the super rich.
In other words, if the U.S. government's budget were just 2% higher than it is, our problems would be solved.
Sound plausible to you?
If we're really that close, why couldn't these problems have been solved long ago, by just a little belt-tightening among existing programs?
Politics truly brings out the worst in people: superficiality (er, I'll bet some more money will solve this problem, even though spending has doubled on it in the past 10 years with no results!), vindictiveness, greed, us-vs-them thinking, everyone-who-disagrees-with-me-wants-the-homeless-to-die, etc.
That's why, in addition to my libertarian email list, I have this one:
A 100% anti-politics email list.
What we're trying to build here is a part of your life that's politics-proof. You can live it and not even have to know who's in charge.
Yes, they can tax you.
But when Harry Browne wrote How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, he wasn't talking primarily about politics.
He was talking about liberating yourself from prisons of your own making -- including by creating a job and an income stream that isn't dependent on doing something you hate.
You can do that no matter what happens with the state.
And guess what:
I know some of you folks have the best of intentions, but that an 80-video course on what to do may as well be an 8 billion-video course.
Just for you, I made a single 30-minute video.
Walks you through every step of the simple yet potentially quite lucrative online business -- of the kind that brings in half my income, I might add -- that many of my own friends run from their laptops.
So when I visit them, they don't say, "I get off work at 6; let's meet then."
They say, "Come on over!"
Not a bad life.
And you know: a Woods 30-minute video is worth 300 minutes from some blowhard who shouts motivational crap at you the whole time.
Get it before it's gone:
Tom Woods