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...many ways, his key insight was not historical but psychological: each side projects its own worst attributes onto the other, demonizing the enemy as an exaggerated and negative version of itself. We see some of that in our culture today. It's been a long and fraught summer in the political realm, and the hope for bipartisan harmony now seems like a naive fantasy. Each side, to quote Hofstadter, claims that what is at stake is "always a conflict about absolute good and absolute evil...
What we've learned from psychology is that certainty is not an objective reality but an emotional one; our certainty has more to do with our own inner state than any outer one. And these toxic certainties of today--on the right and the left--exist in the age of 24-hour cable, the Internet and Twitter, where people on the edge of the national conversation can jostle their way to the center...
...sorts through the accusations and says, This is fact, and this is fantasy. To do that, we asked editor-at-large David Von Drehle, based in Kansas City, Mo., to shed light on the Glenn Beck phenomenon as well as the larger idea of the anger of American politics today. "Clearly, Glenn Beck is extremely talented, and the man has struck a chord," Von Drehle says. "But the nature of politics right now rewards the people who play the least harmonious tunes...
...bailouts kept millions of people from ruin. But this success may have made it impossible to fix what ailed the financial system in the first place, which could eventually bring ruin to even more millions. The future is uncertain, so there's a lot to be said for solving today's real problems rather than obsessing about tomorrow's hypothetical ones. The trouble is that they won't stay hypothetical forever...
Sounds reasonable. But the whole double-metal-bar-thing seems more intimidating than it should be. Look at what FlyBy found today...