Political personalities and non violent communication between the two.
Yang is one of my favorite lib politicians- his thoughtfulness, and general kindness are right down my alley- the fact that his positions strike some people as ""extreme"" being no impediment to my taste. I actually don't know if I agree with his policy proposals, but I generally tend to think that his grasp of the problems we are jointly facing is far, far better than most. Here one his podcast interviews another one of my favorites- Jonathan Haidt, on the differences between liberals and conservatives.
Yang is an expert in speaking the "Conservative" language and has taken Haidt's work very much to heart to implement it in the field.I myself have experimented with this some- it is amazing how often times a Conservative can not recognized their own ideas repackaged for a liberal – and by the same token liberals, leftists, etc are often offended by their own politics spoken in lingo Conservative.
The whole talk is good, but the section after the 30:00 min timestamp is hard hitting in particular.
Yang says outright something I have felt ever since fully absorbing this definition of Political Personalities a few years back -
Quote- " If your nature actually drives you to conservatism or liberalism, than it really should be very problematic to castigate, demonize or villainize millions of people based upon their politics”
( read politics here to mean " personality type" in an deeply felt inherent preference that is not generated by reason. It impossible to absorb this statement if you are thinking of politics as a rational set of policy positions)
I absolutely see extreme political partisanship in this light- its dangerous due to the underlying physical basis of it that is often not recognized. It is a subtle unrecognized form of bigotry.
In case this seems like some strange quirk of Haidt's - here is a rather humorous example of this distinction in use- where economist Tyler Cowen, using Haidt's thinking, declares Slavoj Zizek " A Conservative Communist" and spends a charming 15 minutes arguing the point. I tend to think its true when seen from a "personality" perspective.
